Yup: this is the view from my seat at Chanel, across the aisle. This couture season they created a whole Airbus interior inside the Grand Palais in Paris, complete with faux logo carpet, wheelie carts with orange juice and champagne, and a sky and cloud video that segued into earth from above moving across the ceiling.

Why?

Maybe they were inspired by all those private planes they rented to
transport people to their recent Las Vegas extravaganza at the Wynn. Maybe
it was a comment on where the couture customers are these days (far away
from Paris in the Middle East and Russia). Maybe it was a metaphor for the
current economic situation, and the need for revenue to soar, not crash.
Maybe that’s pushing it as an interpretation.

What I do know is that, aside from a colour palette that tended to sky and
midnight blue, it didn’t seem to have much to do with the clothes, which
were heavy with gems and sequins and encrustation (although there were a
lot of balloon sleeves). What I guess is the answer is much simpler, and
more revealing in nature: because they can.