Paris Fashion Week 2015: Karl Lagerfield, Chanel Puts on Feminist Protest on Runway
If there is anyone who is going to draw attention during Paris Fashion Week, it's Karl Lagerfeld.
As part of the Spring 2015 presentation Lagerfeld, the head director at Chanel, staged a feminist protest, and the venue was transformed to look like the streets of Paris.
As "I'm Every Woman" by Chaka Khan played, models marched out with signs. Lagerfeld even got Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen, who rarely walks for the runway nowadays, to participate.
Signs were written in French and English and said things like, "Women's Right are More Than Alright," "Free Freedom" and "Boys Should Get Pregnant Too."
Lagerfeld said there was no political meaning to his show.
"I don't ask myself political questions at that level," he said.
Not even his "Divorce for All" sign was supposed to have a deeper meaning. But the sign definitely alluded to the gay marriage law that was passed in France last year.
The clothing signaled to the 1960s with its psychedelic prints.
Feminism has definitely been a talking point for many celebrities.
Taylor Swift recently said she considered herself a feminist, and she even praised Emma Watson for her speech at the United Nations' He for She event.
"So many girls out there say, 'I'm not a feminist' because they think it means something angry or disgruntled or complaining or they picture, like, rioting and picketing," she said. "It is not that at all. It just simply means that you believe that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities, and to say that you're not a feminist means you think men should have more rights and opportunities than women."
Swift explained that if she had known what the word meant earlier, she would have labeled herself a feminist before.
Kelly Clarkson, for example, said that she isn't a feminist because the word seems too strong and she loves men.
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