Chanel Spring/Summer 2019, les Impressionnistes à Londres, Petit Palais

The Chanel Spring-Summer 2019 show at Grand Palais always comes as the final coup de grace to Paris Fashion Week. The great advantage is after you're done gawping at the fashion plates rushing to get inside by 10:30/showtime, you can cross the street and visit the PETIT PALACE and see the latest exhibit. This is the last week for LES IMPRESSIONNISTES À LONDRES.

Leather or tweed bikers hats were out in numbers this year.

Chanel l'invitées were told to wear low heels or flats.

A sandy beach was waiting for them inside the Grand Palais

Including real waves!

Many fashionistas show up sans show invitation just to pose for all the photographers onsite.

I loved the double sweater effect of this photographer (two identical wooly pullovers - one tied around the neck).

The crowd was definitely smaller outside PETIT PALAIS across the street and less chic.

Many French artists like Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Tissot and Daubigny sought refuge and exil in London during the wretched years of the Franco-Prussian war, 1870-1871. Monet's misty house of parliament.

The smog and smoke was thick back in the day.

Ladies by James Tissot were just as elegantly dressed as Chanelophiles across the street.

Could you wear a Chanel outfit at this picnic?

Another Monet in a London park.

Monet's houses of parliament series

And Derain's Fauve version.. The show is on through october 15 so hurry run see it. Thanks for reading Parisbreakfast. If you'd like to receive Parisbreakfast letters 💌 maps and watercolors in your mailbox 📮 look in my Etsy shop. 

Bonne Semaine!