the boat is as far back as my memory goes too.
i'm pretty sure the tokyo collection was the first prefall. That is, as we know them right now (metiers d'arts, the 'satelites', etc) because it's the year when Chanel bought lesage, lemarie, massaro, montex, et al.
In fact, i thing in terms of look-books, windows, prices, the time the clothes hit the stores and also which stores, chanel stills differentiate between metiers d'arts and prefall. it's just that the former gets all the attention, one rarely hears about the latter if it's not by visiting the stores.
on a side note:
i remember the first day i found out there were fashion shows, or even fashion in general, posted online (i thought fashion was a strictly-magazine-kind-of-thing that was hardly ever on tv, and that was only when galliano would decide to do weird things like egyptian goddesses and stuff like that)
the thing is i was looking god knows what online and i found the dior site. i saw there was a video, and that's how i discovered the fall 05 couture collection. after watching it twice i wondered what other fashion label could have a website (as if that was something crazy) and ended up chez chanel. that's when i watched the couture show, and the cruise 2006 show (the tramways and le Flore)
i can't say i wasnt interested in fashion before, because it's something i've always noticed or liked, but that was certainly the day when it became 'relevant'
so...
yeah... BRAVO FOR THE CRUISE 2006 SHOW!!
I need a free afternoon to screencap the video on YouTube I guess...And I will never forgive myself for not going to the Grand Central Show- since the public could watch the whole thing and see everybody from downstairs... 
and I didn't go... 
CHANEL's Barbara Cirkva attends the New York City Ballet 2009-2010 season opening night celebration at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center on November 24, 2009 in New York City.
