Gigi stops comedian as she gatecrashes Chanel’s show
Supermodel Gigi Hadid confronted a gatecrasher at Chanel’s Spring/Summer 2020 show in a wacky final day of Paris Fashion Week.
The madness began in the day’s first show when a prankster walked unchecked onto the Chanel ramp with the models for the big finale.
French comedian Marie Benoliel ran from her seat and joined the models as they did their last walk along a spectacular set, recreating the rooftops of Paris inside the Grand Palais.
With security guards left floundering, Hadid confronted the gatecrasher as she tried to further upstage the models.
Having crashed Etam’s lingerie show earlier in Paris Fashion Week in silver underwear, Benoliel dressed in a black and white Chanellike houndstooth tweed suit and a hat, to pull off an even bigger stunt.
“Marie S’Infiltre (which translates to infiltrates in English) strikes again!” she declared on Instagram after being shown the door.
Guards only realised that she had joined the models when it was too late to intervene.
“I couldn’t stop laughing because the hapless security guards couldn’t spot her in the line-up,” said New York Times fashion writer Elizabeth Paton, who had been on the front row.
By then Benoliel was giving it her all, waddling down the catwalk with her hands on her hips like a supermodel.
Moments later, as she left the line of models to pose further up on the rooftop, Hadid marched over to determinedly block her way before the visibly miffed model escorted the comedian offstage.
Chanel in a statement said that they did not “want to make a drama out of it”.
Benoliel was “escorted to the exit by our security personnel afterwards”, a spokeswoman added. AFP
COMEDIAN MARIE BENOLIEL JOINED THE CATWALK AT CHANEL’S SHOW, SHE HAD PULLED OFF A SIMILAR PRANK AT A LINGERIE BRAND’S SHOW LAST WEEK