Women’s Wear Daily editor Bridget Foley missed the first day of couture collections in Paris last month because she was detained by customs officials in France.
Fashionista Foley was held up by French authorities because her passport had nearly expired. She was put in a holding cell, then taken to a police lockup.
After an 11-hour ordeal and frantic calls between her Condé Nast bosses and the US Embassy, it was Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld who came to the rescue.
He’d heard about the situation and dispatched Chanel president Bruno Pavlovsky to contact French officials and set her free.
Foley wrote in WWD this week of the ordeal, “My personal takeaway: Should I ever be stopped by law enforcement personnel for anything, for crossing against the light, my first words will be ‘Officer, I’m so sorry.’ And my second: ‘I want to call a lawyer. Or Chanel.’ ”