Chanel constructed a gallery for its spring show that rivalled the White Cube in Bermondsey for length - and then filled it with all manner of 'art works'
Which business hypes objects of exquisite beauty as status symbols, then sells them to the highest paying offshore yahoo to cloister unseen on his superyacht? And just as crassly - but even more cynically - which business fetishes dross as genius, dismisses the opinion of anyone who doesn't pretend to get it - and then sells that to the highest bidder too?
Maybe Lagerfeld wasn't trying to lampoon the art world. But Chanel's choice of soundtrack - Jay Z's 'Picasso Baby' - which upliftingly compares Francis Bacon to turkey bacon and rhymes 'Rothko' with 'brothel' as it recounts the art collecting ambitions of a high-rolling drug dealer - couldn't but make you think he might be. Either way, these clothes were must-see.
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