--- title: PFW 2017: Karl Lagerfeld Launches Rocket at Chanel VIDEO description: Leave it to fashion's kaiser Karl Lagerfeld to launch a rocket during the finale of the Chanel fashion show at the Grand Palais in Paris. canonical: https://time.com/4693352/chanel-rocket-ship/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-07T18:04:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:40.923Z og:title: The Chanel Fashion Show Ended with a Very Chic Rocket Launch og:description: The Grand Palais was transformed into a space station og:url: https://time.com/4693352/chanel-rocket-ship/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Chanel Fashion Show Ended with a Very Chic Rocket Launch twitter:description: The Grand Palais was transformed into a space station twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Chanel Fashion Show Ended With a Very Stylish Rocket Launch  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 7, 2017 6:04 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 7, 2017 6:04 PM UTC In the past, [Meryl Streep dissenter](http://time.com/4683081/meryl-streep-karl-lagerfeld-chanel-oscars-dress/) and mercurial designer [Karl Lagerfeld](http://content.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,1810167997%5F1845416,00.html) has transformed Chanel’s perennial show location, the Grand Palais in Paris, into [a supermarket](http://www.businessinsider.com/chanel-grocery-store-runway-show-2014-3), [a casino](http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/07/paris-couture-chanel-casino/) and [a French brasserie](http://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2015-ready-to-wear/chanel) as a part of the gorgeously over-the-top runway shows he stages for the storied French house. His most recent fashion show for Chanel, however, might be the most out-of-this-world offering he’s had yet: a stylish interpretation of a space station, complete with a to-scale, fully Chanel-branded rocket ship that actually launched during the close of the show — fittingly enough, to the dulcet tones of Elton John’s “Rocket Man.” On deck for this fantastic finale were Pharrell Williams, Cara Delevingne, Lily-Rose Depp and mother Vanessa Paradis. Fitting in with the aeronautical theme were quilted Mylar-esque capes, futuristic silver go-go boots, and silhouettes reminiscent of the “race to space” era; if those elements weren’t cogent enough, Lagerfeld also gave the collection the literal treatment by using astronaut and planet prints and including a rocket-ship handbag for good measure. See Chanel’s very out of this world rocket launch and fashion show in all its glory below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4693352/chanel-rocket-ship/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4693352/chanel-rocket-ship/"},"headline":"The Chanel Fashion Show Ended With a Very Stylish Rocket Launch","datePublished":"2017-03-07T18:04:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:40.923Z","description":"The Grand Palais was transformed into a space station","url":"https://time.com/4693352/chanel-rocket-ship/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","fashion","Culture","Chanel"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4693352/chanel-rocket-ship/","name":"The Chanel Fashion Show Ended With a Very Stylish Rocket Launch"}}]}] ```