Purple Magazine
— F/W 2016 issue 26

Chanel Cruise La Habana, Cuba

photography by OLIVIER ZAHM style by CAMILLE BIDAULT-WADDINGTON featuring LINEISY MONTERO Picture a beautiful but fallen-down Caribbean city with no fashion boutiques, no luxury goods, no street advertisements, no magazines, no Starbucks, and no selfies. The only Internet connections are at a few hotels where people hang around outside hacking the Wi-Fi code. Now imagine a sexy city with a young population craving change after 60 years of ongoing socialist revolution, but one that also offers free education, free health care, and rent-free apartments for its people (you pay if you want a better place). After US President Barack Obama paid an unprecedented visit to Havana, the Rolling Stones performed there for the first time. Then Karl Lagerfeld arrived with his Chanel Cruise collection, with models parading on the Paseo del Prado in the historical center — a brilliant collection honoring “Cuba Libre” in an explosion of Cuban styles, sensuous…

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