The 10 Best Beauty Looks On Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel Runways

All eyes were on Naomi Campbell at the Chanel couture spring/summer 1992 show, thanks to her purple pixie cut wig, worn underneath a matching purple veil.

Continuing the wig theme from the previous season, for Chanel’s couture autumn/winter 1992 show, Christy Turlington sashayed down the catwalk sporting a lacquered black pixie crop that was almost cartoon-like. This was paired with subtle feline flicks and a red lip, for a soft-focus glam.

Drawing inspiration from hip-hop culture, Lagerfeld’s spring/summer 1994 collection was all about the streets. As for the beauty, it was quintessentially ’90s, with bare faces and spiky up-dos.

As the ’90s drew to a close, Lagerfeld moved away from his maximalist aesthetic in favour of something more pared back. For the Chanel spring/summer 1999 show, models glided down the catwalk with softly-smoked eyes and sleek extra-long extensions, parted to the side.

Perhaps his most mesmerising beauty look of all time, for the Chanel couture autumn/winter 1999 show, Lagerfeld cherry-picked fashion darling Devon Aoki to close the show as that season’s bride. Shrouded in a billowing cream cape, her Pepto-Bismol pink mohawk could be seen peeking out at the top.

Inspired by the Millennium bug, for Lagerfeld’s Chanel couture autumn/winter 2001, the category was futuristic. Cast in the role of bride, Linda Evangelista appeared positively angelic in a beautiful white lace bonnet, which she wore with frosted lips and shimmering silver lids.

There was a saccharine charm to the beauty looks on Karl’s spring/summer 2003 runway show. A love letter to the colour pink, washes of magenta started at the inner corners of the eyes and fanned out onto the cheek bones, while lips were kept rosy with a hint of shine.

It was all about contrasts at the Chanel couture spring/summer 2005 show, which featured delicate feathered head pieces and thick angular brows.

There was something incredibly doll-like about the beauty at the couture spring/summer 2010 show. To complement their candy-coloured cutesy tweed skirt suits, models wore their hair in bouffant beehives, tied at the front with giant bows, and punctuated with streaks for a subversive edge. Skin was porcelain while lips were accented with coral.

For his autumn/winter 2014 show, Karl Lagerfeld treated us to a fashionable supermarket sweep, where models sauntered down the aisles in a smorgasbord of brightly coloured tweeds. As for beauty, feline flicks in neon hues added jolts of colour, while ponytails were jazzed up with multi-coloured tweed.