'It's about the emotion': why Chanel hired a chateau for a catwalk show with no guests

The French fashion house took a team of 300 to a Loire castle for a blowout event this week, despite the pandemic preventing anyone from attending How important is a catwalk show to a fashion house? Important enough, in the case of Chanel, to take a team of 300 - including the actor Kristen Stewart, the photographer Juergen Teller and a small army of models - to put on a show in one of the most magnificent chateaux in France, despite an audience capped at zero.Chanel had hoped to welcome 200 gue...