PARIS (AP) — Only Chanel would call its legendary Rue Cambon salon “too small” — then rebuild it, supersized, in a palace. On Tuesday, as the house marked 110 years of its haute couture — a century and more of Coco Chanel’s revolution in how women dress — it recreated its atelier inside the freshly restored Grand Palais, turning intimacy into spectacle for a nature-drenched show at Paris Couture Week. Chanel, whose founder banished corsets and reimagined luxury as liberation, showed just how far that legacy stretches: from the tiny salons of 1915 to its modern colossus.
Chanel marks 110 years by recreating its couture salon in a palace as Blazy era approaches