PARIS (AP) — Showmanship returned to Chanel on Monday.

At Paris Fashion Week, its new designer Matthieu Blazy opened the season’s most anticipated debut beneath colossal celestial bodies — Saturn with its rings, a full solar system suspended above a jet-black and a mirror-bright runway — staking a claim for theater from the first second.

Reflections mirrored the cosmos beneath the runway, while a front row constellation — Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Tilda Swinton, joined by Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos — gazed upward.

By night’s end, the room rose in a standing ovation. As Vogue’s doyenne Anna Wintour has said, “fashion needs its showmen.”

Chanel had one again.

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Founded in 1910, Chanel reshaped women’s wardrobes by replacing corseted silhouettes with ease — jersey

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