Future of 'Chanel tunnel' confirmed after calls for huge canopy to stay in Manchester

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The huge canopy erected for Chanel's Manchester fashion show will be coming down - but may not be lost forever, the Manchester Evening News has learned.

The structure, which has been nicknamed the 'Chanel Tunnel' by Mancs, was put up over Thomas Street in the Northern Quarter to protect catwalk models and the 600 plus guests from the elements at last night's glitzy open-air Métiers d'Art show by the globally renowned fashion house.

The roof has already proved a hit with scores of people, including businesses and councillors, who have said they would leave to see it become a permanent feature. READ MORE: Chanel fashion show LIVE updates after huge Manchester event and after-party as film released READ MORE: I went to Chanel's after-party in Manchester - and what I found inside was just perfect The canopy remains in place this morning but the M.E.N.

understands it is now in the process of being de-rigged and will be taken down in due course, as was always the plan, before being taken away in lorries and returned to the fabricators who created it.