Armani and Chanel Draw in Celebs at Couture Day 2 The red-carpet glamor of haute couture - with its dripping paillettes, glistening silks and exorbitant price tag - makes it a natural bedfellow for A-list actresses the world over. The spring-summer season 2013 is certainly no exception, with Tuesday, the second day of couture week, attracting a throng of top stars, old and young - as it has for decades. "Kill Bill" star Uma Thuman likes Armani couture so much that she flew in hundreds of miles especially to catch the 15-minute show. "He's one of the few designers who's been dressing Hollywood actresses since the beginning," said Thurman of the Italian fashion legend, who held a typically sumptuous couture display of luxurious silks, with rhinestones, jet and crystal. Chanel also is a celebrity mainstay - with Karl Lagerfeld's shimmering woven silks and braided tulles this season attracting Diane Kruger, Clemence Poesy and perhaps one of couture's youngest fans, 16-year-old Academy Award nominee Hailee Steinfeld. But it's not all pretty. Kim Kardashian's tardy entrance at Stephane Rolland's show caused delays. Haute couture is an artisan-based method of making clothes that dates back more than 150 years. One palace, 90 oak trees and more than 3,000 bushes is the kind of decadence that spells only one thing: Chanel haute couture. The natural landscape framed a show that put a contemporary, floral spin on the dropped shoulders of the 19th century France's Second Empire. Revelers shivered as they entered near-freezing glen inside Paris Grand Palais. But for the upbeat designer Karl Lagerfeld, the season was clearly one of optimism. It's not cold, it's just fresh. Spring is in the air," he said from the bushes after the show. Models with 19th century-style feathers cascading from their hair sported 69 looks in silk, lace and tulle. Dropped-square shoulders defined the esthetic. With Chanel, there is always more than meets the eye. Here, that was found in the tweed - or the lack of it. All the skirt suits that resembled tweed were, in fact, fastidiously woven silk ribbons. Only a few living designers can execute a couture show where almost every look glistens as much with classic timelessness as it does with innovation. Giorgio Armani, 78, is one of them. The proof was in Tuesday's Armani Prive collection: a finely balanced affair contrasting the classic with the exotic. In 54 looks, the designer tastefully combined luxurious silk materials - such as Mikado silks, clean satins, organzas and silk jacquards - alongside Africa-style patterns, geometric zigzags and bold color such as saffron yellow, ruby red and orange. A huge lightning bolt down the catwalk added to the eclectic energy coming from ethnic-style jewelry, art deco hats and mysterious wands. The statement was loud and clear: this season it was about intensity. Stephane Rolland finally hit the right aesthetic for perfecting his take on pure architectural couture styles. Accompanied by toga-wearing violinists, rich hourglass gowns flowed by in white silk and diaphanous white organza. Some looks came in black. Sheer backs and see-through silk blocks on legs added touches of sensuality - proof why Rolland's a favorite with stars such as Kim Kardashian, who watched from the front row.