Last Tuesday’s Chanel show at Grand Palais was the end of Fashion Week. Even with less fashion editors traveling, many of the faithful showed up.
I kept my eyes peeled for an authentic Chanel jacket. Would I be able to identify a real one vs. a copy?
Did you know Chanel got her cardigan idea from an Austrian menswear Loden jacket? Its true.
This one looks home-made. It doesn’t hang right.
There should be a little gold chain in the jacket’s hem. There are a gazillion DYI youtube videos.
I once visited Hawick (pronounced Hoyk) in Scotland for Christmas where Chanel Tweeds were once woven. That’s the closest I’ve come to a Chanel jacket. Plus gawping at the bi-annual Chanel shows.
This one seems right. I like the simplicity of the collar-less look.
A fun Chanel printed leather jacket in name only.
I love this wittyKarl’ bag with Coco’s Ritz suite address on it.
You can see the latest Spring/Summer 2021 show
here. Lots of bright pink and bathrobe styling.
The ultra simple decor - giant Chanel letters like HOLLYWOOD. I miss Lagerfeld’s wild fantasy sets...
Your watercolor of the Chanel jacket draped over the chair is so lovely! Sadly, that is the closest that I will get to one of these coveted classics. It is so fun seeing women at the show in their real & faux Chanel. Love the woman in the grey suit with the Ritz bag...and the soft grey houndstooth jacket with pastels running through it...sigh! Thank you, Carol, for letting us live vicariously through your Paris adventures. Love the Chanel watercolors in your Etsy shop. ❤️
ReplyDeleteCHANEL tout les temps! Fantastic post, Carol🇫🇷. History I did not know about. Yes! Would love a Map on this💗 You can also subscribe to the Chanel App & see all the shows. It must be difficult to create a show after Karl, non?
ReplyDeleteThe link to the lady who sews was interesting...I can’t believe she calls herself an “amateur”. She is very talented. I wonder if it would be easier for us true amateurs to embellish a jacket that we already have. With the right trim, of course...I see a visit to Marche Saint-Pierre in my future (when we can return to Paris!).
ReplyDeleteMaybe go to Scotland instead of Montmartre for your bouclé tweed?
ReplyDelete‘After-Karl’
ReplyDeleteWill there ever be another? I think not...
Loved your post Carol. It is always so much fun looking at French couture. I miss seeing Karl Lagerfeld he was so flamboyant. Have been watching Emily In Paris on Netflix.
ReplyDeleteFun to see the Chanel girls and YOUR chair the most.I cannot imagine a life needing the perfect Chanel jacket:)Hunter or Joules boots yes..Linen..yes..
ReplyDeleteFun to see the variations.
ReplyDeleteTrès joli Carol !
ReplyDeleteYes the jacket is it! !!
ReplyDeleteAh, oui Carol ! you should map that bridge !
ReplyDeleteI like your chairs with purse and jacket too.
Carol,
ReplyDeleteWould you wear a fake Chanel jacket? I think I could in the town where I live but not in Paris.
These days there are so many variations...
ReplyDeleteI would definitely where one, real or not, if it was pretty enough.
We always eagerly await a post from you, Carol. Your posts are the next best thing to being in Paris.
ReplyDeleteLove your aquarelle of the chair and jacket and love the classic Chanel look. Great people watching at the fashion shows, probably better than the shows themselves.
ReplyDeleteI've been following your great blog for several years through my friend Susan. You've inspired me to start my own little blog, juliejotsbonjour.com. You might like the first one, all about a scarf I was given with a huge plan de Paris on it....I found my address when a student in Paris in 1952. My blog is for French students, a sentence or three in French, same sentences in English. You are a master
ReplyDeleteat blogging....we get free trips to Paris via you....our favorite Ile St. Louis, especially.
Julie Parker
I have the same scarf Julie
ReplyDeleteNo link to yr blog?
I'm so new at this and yet so old I don't know how to leave a link. i'll learn soon I hope. I thought just putting down juliejotsbonjour.com was the link???
ReplyDeleteJulie P.
I don't know why it calls me Unknown. I am Julieparkerbonjour.
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