Karl Lagerfeld’s successor, Virginie Viard, has launched her first collection in a Chanel show that was held last week at the Grand Palais in Paris.

The show featured a grand station cafe bedecked with full art nouveau regalia, and the double-C logo imprinted onto everything from carpets to station clocks.

Breakfast and lunch were served to the 500 guests before each of the two consecutive shows.

The collection included wide-legged cotton trousers and matching jackets, trench coats, high starched white collar, and graphic white-and-black bootee.

“Virginie is doing an amazing job, and she will be here for a long time. Perhaps not 30 years, but a long time. When you are number two to Karl, you are invisible, but like Karl she has capacity to intuit new trends, to understand l’air du temps [the times] as well as she understands Chanel,” Chanel’s president of fashion, Bruno Pavlovsky, said before the show.

“There is still a lot of emotion here about Karl, no doubt. But there is also some new freedom, if I may say so,” Pavlovsky described the show as smiling.

He confirmed that a memorial service for Lagerfeld will be held on June 20 at the Grand Palais in the French capital.

“It will not be about Chanel or about Fendi; it will be about Karl. The brands are working together, to celebrate him."