Karl Lagerfeld Takes Miami

In a scene straight out of Miami’s new art- and design-focused tourism campaign, fashion designer-cum-cultural arbiter Karl Lagerfeld will show the Chanel “cruise” (i.e., resort) collection tonight in South Beach — on a catwalk constructed over the Raleigh Hotel‘s iconic pool, which Lagerfeld described to Ocean Drive magazine as “a kind of symbol of Miami — the idea of Miami, what people think Miami is all about.” As for the Andre Balazs-owned hotel itself, the designer believes it has “the character of the old-fashioned idea of Miami, [which] is good for fashion.”