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Chanel marks 110 years by recreating its couture salon in a palace as Blazy era approaches
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A model wears a creation as part of the Chanel Fall-Winter 2025/26 Haute Couture collection presented Tuesday, July 8, 2025, in Paris. - photo by AP Photo/Tom Nicholson
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.