Grand Palais

Lagerfeld’s Chanel runway shows at the Grand Palais were as much about the set design and theatrics as they were the clothing. Most recently, for the spring 2019 couture collection, he transformed the exhibition hall into the gardens of an Italianate villa, complete with pool, palms and cypresses. The previous season, he took the fashion week crowd to the beach – yes, there were waves lapping a white-sand beach – to sell his vision for the resort collection. In 2014, for the fall/winter 2014 ready-to-wear show, Cara Delevingne walked the aisles of a kitsch supermarket. Even without Lagerfeld’s touch, the building is beautiful, one of Paris’s finest venues for art and fashion.