Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto will soon be open at London’s V&A. Katie Wright crosses the water to retrace her trailblazing path.
After a two-year refurbishment, Palais Galliera in Paris throws open its doors to host an exhibition dedicated to Gabrielle Chanel, one of the most influential fashion designers of the 20th century.
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Chanel
The sun has set. Gabrielle Chanel leaves her couture house at 31 rue Cambon, and walks to her suite at the Ritz on Place Vendôme, almost as if this familiar landscape is already part of her future. As she comes up to the window, lighting a cigarette, who knows what she is looking at, what she is observing? Where on Place Vendôme she might rest her gaze, breathing in its air deeply as one might inhale the fragrance of a sprig of jasmine? Who knows where her mind wanders as the streetlamps are lit one by one around the stone octagon, tracing its perfect geometry, barely touched by the silhouettes of passers-by? Gabrielle puts out her cigarette, takes off her shoes, and casts her gaze around the familiar square. At this time of day, in the shifting shadows of twilight, the townhouses are slowly dissolving in the velvety evening air. At this moment, Gabrielle cannot imagine that one of them, n°18 to be precise, will become the precious home of CHANEL.
La Cote des Montres: CHANEL 18, Place Vendôme - Paris: the iconic
To soothe our covid-battered soul, the City of Lights has prepared an abundance of events this summer. From the hundreds of exhibitions, boutique openings and cultural programmes in Paris I selected a few for my long weekend. Check them out if you fancy a recharge in the French capital.
Summer in Paris
