In Paris, Chanel lights the rocket under a new space race

A rocket launch at climax of Paris fashion week demonstrated that no one can match Karl Lagerfeld’s creative firepowerSpace travel stands for many things – the future, bravery, wonder, touching the very edges of what it means to be human – but, on the last day of Paris fashion week, what it represented above all was supremacy. Just as the space race was a way for superpowers to flex their muscles with the world watching, a 35-metre-tall rocket – which launched 10 metres i