
So it's only be expected that the two should collide in luxury grocery stores and gluttonous window displays, in dresses made of meat, cabbage, peas, and cheese, in all the edible collaborations between food and fashion that follow here. The King of all Italian cheeses, the production of real, authentic Parmigiano Reggiano is restricted to parts of the Emilia Romagna region and a small section of Lombardy. Here are eight essential foods of Lombardy that reflect the diverse landscapes of the northern Italian region. This was only the latest in a long-stretching runway of food and fashion mash-ups, two realms that toe the line between luxury and necessity-we must eat, as we must wear clothes, but some do it better than others. And for the rest of Paris Fashion Week, spare boxes of Coco Puffs replaced clutches in the hands of the street-fashion-savvy, while everyone else cursed the precedent Lagerfeld had set for appropriate grocery-store attire. Mashup foods were clearly all the rage this year (to review: cronut, ramen burger.) and this Pop-Tart ice cream from Carls Jr. These models were not walking the runway they were grocery shopping-Chanel-branded sunglasses, coats, mayonnaise, and all. Then it’s reassembled and ready to devour. Then he’s pouring over KFC gravy, along with a container of their baked beans. In its place, he’s piling on KFC breaded Mini-Filets and Popcorn Chicken. To debut his Fall 2014 collection, Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld recently dispatched models to stroll beneath the soaring ceilings of Paris's Grand Palais, stomping on their stilettos and plucking Eau de Chanel–emblazoned water bottles and plastic-wrapped purses marked "100-percent lamb" off rows of assembled shelves. First, he’s taking a Subway Chicken and Bacon Melt, and he’s removing the chicken.
