The spring/summer 2012 Paris Couture Week collection from Chanel was staged in elaborate style using a mock airplane as the runway.
Guests took their seats for the fashion house show as stewards walked up and down a navy carpet emblazoned with the Chanel monogram down the centre aisle, offering guests champagne from a trolley.
Situated inside the Grand Palais exhibition hall in Paris, the life-sized replica jumbo jet featured a cockpit and one end and images of clouds had been placed overhead, Agence France-Presse reports.
Limited seating meant that there were two Chanel shows, with guests provided with swivelling chairs that enabled them to spin round to watch the catwalk on which models stepped in Karl Lagerfeld's latest creations.
The palette was based on 154 different shades of blue, setting off soft designs highlighted by glittering embroidery, rounded collars and beading.
Florence Welch of chart-topping band Florence + The Machine, who has formed a friendship with Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld, recently told magazine Look that he is "such a great person to be around creatively".
Chanel recently signed up model Alice Dellal as the latest face of the fashion house and she has expressed her excitement at getting to work with the firm and its creative director.
Commenting on her first campaign working with Karl Lagerfeld and the iconic brand, she stated that she was surprised to have been chosen by the company to front it.
"I wasn't surprised by how genuine and cool he was because you can tell that, but to be able to talk to him and share the same opinions was really nice," Dellal as stated in an interview for Chanel.
She said she will remember the experience of launching the new Boy handbag line for Chanel forever, with the shoot taking place in an old French apartment.