Chanel Pre-Fall 2011 Collection

It takes a queen to make an empress.Uncle Karl goes off the beaten path:"The season's theme, Paris-Byzance, Lagerfeld explained, was inspired by the Empress Theodora and the lost culture of Byzantium. In typically rapid-fire mode, he noted: "Theodora was a circus artist who became empress, like Chanel, who was a little singer and became a fashion empress."There is no one, except maybe