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Lily-Rose Depp, 17, lands coveted role as Chanel's end of show bride

Lily-Rose Depp was given the honour at the Chanel couture SS17 show of wearing the coveted wedding dress to close their runway at Paris Fashion Week and also do the lap of honour with the man himself - Karl Lagerfeld.

The 17-year-old daughter of actor Johnny Depp and French singer Vanessa Paradis, who is also the new face of Chanel No. 5, wore a dusky pink gown with ruffled sleeves and skirt and a buttoned-up, belted corset on Tuesday in a collection inspired by Alberto Giacometti's 1920s sculpture Spoon Woman.

Some websites have dubbed Depp the "child bride" because she is still four months shy of the legal age of consent to wed in France, a slightly overblown comparison given she is merely walking the runway at the Grand Palais, rather than down the aisle.

She follows in the end-of-show haute couture Chanel bridal footsteps of the likes of Cara Delevingne, Kendall Jenner, Claudia Schiffer, and Australian model, Abbey Lee Kershaw.

Sitting front row at the mirrored runway (inspired by Coco Chanel's mirrored staircase in her atelier at 31 Rue Cambon) were mostly the French fashion elite, but also Vogue editor Anna Wintour and Depp's proud-as-punch mother, Paradis, who has been a long-time muse to Lagerfeld, first modelling for the brand in 1991. 

W Magazine reports that the sight of her mother caused "Depp to break her studied model gaze for a brief grin".

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She later shared on Instagram it was "a dream" to become the "Chanel haute couture bride" and thanked the fashion house and Lagerfeld "for this beautiful honour".

Other well-known faces to also walk the runway included Bella Hadid, Arizona Muse and Kendall Jenner.

Jenner's famous sibling, Kim Kardashian West, decided to sit this one out, after she was held at gunpoint and robbed at Paris' last fashion week in October.

The looks at the Chanel show included pastel shades with tulip silhouettes, sequined silver cocktail dresses with feathers, and lots of belts.

But the Jackie Kennedy-inspired tweed suits really stole the show, in a nod to the movie Jackie (which has been nominated for three Oscars) with one pink skirt suit looking strikingly similar to the one she wore on November 22, 1963 - the day her husband, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Texas.

There were also pussy-bow blouses, which Vogue thought was a veiled political reference to Donald Trump's infamous "grab them by the pussy" remarks, saying: "In Chanel world, there are no coincidences. Consider this a peaceful protest."

 

Merci Karl😘

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