At Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld brought a dazzling flurry of artificial snow flakes down on his snowy Alpine catwalk, while Kenzo’s show culminated with a fiery tango by about a dozen male dancers with rag doll partners.

The dynamic Dutch duo Viktor and Rolf kitted each of their models out with individual scaffolding to which the clothes were attached and lit up, and John Galliano’s mise-en-scene was enchanting, if surrealist.

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