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Caribbean & Central America - February 2016 (ISSN 1741-4458)

CUBA: Karl Lagerfeld anoints Cuba’s street cred

On 9 February, barely a fortnight after President Raúl Castro visited Paris as a guest of President François Hollande, Cuban state news sources confirmed that the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, of the legendary French fashion house Chanel, would show his 2016/2017 cruise collection in Havana on 3 May next. It is the first time ever that Chanel has staged a show in Latin America, confirming Cuba anew as the current darling of the world’s ‘It’ set.

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