Winter snow hasn't melted for Chanel. The venerable French fashion house sent out crisp, ice-queen looks in frosty whites at its recent spring-summer haute couture collection.

Sequins and rhinestones sparkled like icicles on A-line cocktail dresses paired with abbreviated bellboy jackets and short-sleeve caplets.

Bond girl Olga Kurylenko hailed the collection as "absolutely stunning." "It was so elegant, the lines were so modern and graphic, and it was a mix of romanticism with modernism," the actress said.

Long and lean architectural dresses shimmered with thousands of sequins and feathery strips of chiffon. Designer Karl Lagerfeld also paired white matchstick trousers with long capes.

Papery white camellias, Chanel's trademark flower, adorned the garments, the models' hair and the venue - a marble hall on Rue Cambon where the label's Paris flagship store and the former apartment of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel are located.