Manchester is known for many things: football, music, its reliably terrible weather. A top-secret luxury fashion event: not so much. No wonder many local people refuse to believe the rumours that Chanel had chosen the city as the location for Métiers d’Art, its annual luxury fashion show.
Bucket hats and cagoules, yes. Couture, non. But, sacrebleu, the rumours are true. Next week, the French fashion house will turn a “dingy” street in Manchester’s Northern Quarter into a catwalk.
