The French fashion house Chanel SA brought its haute couture collection show to Japan for the first time on March 22 as a gesture of support for victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
The show at the Shunjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was held in a specially constructed venue decorated to resemble the inside of an airliner. It was a reprise of a show premiered in Paris in January.
Chanel shows off its haute couture collection in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward on March 22. (Yusaku Kanagawa)
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