Bridget Foley’s Diary: Chanel’s Métiers d’Art Takes Manhattan

Wealth, creativity, craft. In concert, extreme doses of the three make for a mighty trinity, a fact on powerful view at Chanel’s Métiers d’Art show at the Park Avenue Armory on Tuesday night. As everyone with even a remote interest in fashion knows, this was a restaging of the Paris-Salzburg show first presented at the Rococo palace Schloss Leopoldskron in December. It lost nothing for having been Take Two — even if the creative genius behind the whole shebang had moved on, intellectually and practically, if not physically. Karl Lagerfeld was, of course, in attendance, the brightest star on a night of stars that featured Julianne Moore; Beyoncé; Pharrell Williams; Dakota Johnson; Vanessa Paradis with her enchanting daughter, ingénue actress Lily-Rose Depp; Patti Smith, Geraldine Chaplin, Lily Collins and on and on. Lagerfeld walked the vast runway through the one-night-only palatial labyrinth that recalled but didn’t imitate an opulent Austrian palace (“you can’t recreate the 18th century”), all golden walls and gilded seating under the glow of enormous crystal chandeliers. Later, he quipped dutifully with stars at the after party. But make no mistake: Redux — even one that dazzles, delights and demands attention — isn’t Lagerfeld’s natural inclination. Normally, “I’m not supposed to

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