So This is the Chanel Show Iceberg We've Heard So Much About

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So the story goes like this: Karl Lagerfeld imported/borrowed/flew/shipped a 28-foot tall, 265-ton iceberg from Sweden to Paris for the Chanel fall-winter 2010 show. 35 sculptors/artisans/ice-people worked on it to make it perfect. Now we're hearing rumors that Chanel can't just, you know, toss the ice/snow/snice-mass into the Channel or the Seine—that this block of frozen water has to somehow get repatriated to Sweden because it's, you know, Swedish water. God, do we love Karl.
· Chanel RTW Fall 2010 [WWD]