Chanel Fall-Winter 2025/26

 A huge downpour ☔️ started as I was about

To leave for the Fall/2025/Chanel show at Grand Palais.

Dolce & Gabbana cont.

 

Sunday I went back to the DOLCE & GABBANA exhibit early, 10:00 🕙 The French are still sleeping 😴 The line was short.

I wanted to see their Gift 🎁 Shop

Dolce & Gabbana, Du Coeur à la Main, Grand Palais

 

I really did run 🏃‍♀️ yesterday 

To Grand Palais to be at the front of the line first day opening

FAB Paris, Fine Arts La Biennale

Wednesday afternoon I went to the presse preview of the annual Fine Arts La Biennaleat Grand Palais 🤸‍♂️

So lovely to be back after being closed several years for refurbishment - definitely one of Paris’ grandest monuments. 

Art Paris Art Fair 2018

Last Wednesday was a bit like today...drizzly…its easy to stay inside and draw. But ART PARIS was opening.

Grand Palais is always a treat no matter how stay-at-home you feel.

Such a fantastic, airy space. Everybody was there. Long, long lines waiting to get. Plenty of pkids!

So much color. Always uplifting.

More color.

A plastic bottle montage.

Wall of eyes + round objects.

A gallery of Corbusier watercolor drawings.

What Parisians are wearing is half of the show.

Champagne chariots stratigically placed.

A 'thank you' note from Swiss kinetic artist Jean Tinguely painted on corrugated cardboard to a Brazilian client.

Loose, casual drawings, look like they were drawn with a branch. I felt like I paint with a pin.

Armin's tubes of yellow ochre encased in plexiglass.

More color - bold, splashy paintings from a Frankfurt gallery, Die Galerie.

On the way home seen in the metro station - Marimeko's bold, splashy prints at Uniglo. I got the one the dotty one on the left. The ISLE OF DOGS poster could have been in the show. 

Next year I won't hesitate to go to ART PARIS.

Hergé, Tintin. Grand Palais

Yesterday the huge Hergé retrospective opened

At no less than the Grand Palais

What 2 wear 2 Chanel Spring 2015 - Grand Palais

10:30 September 30, Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel Spring 2015 show at Grand Palais

What to wear to the show? Something Chanelesque of course.

Assuming you have the precious invitation in your hand. Better have the famous quilty bag along.

The guards are checking names on their iPads. No slipping through this event.

Pink-checked Chanel including Chanel lunch basket.

Generally you'll do fine in Chanel black and white. These slipons look comfy 

US Vogue Grace Coddington in her standard black pajamas. This has to make life simple during Paris Fashion Week.

Black any length works.

Black, white with a touch of red.

Perfect in geometric black and white but no ticket to ride. Still an homage to Chanel/Karl.

Lots of Paris art students show up to watch the show outside the show.

Black and white plus yellow getting interviewed.

NYTimes Bill Cunningham in his blue workman's jacket stalks the invitées happy to pose for him.

FYI Western fringe is IN. Some guests show up wearing garments from the show.

Perfection to a T, Bat_Gio AKA fashion editor Giovanna Battaglia

Arrives a little too late. When they close the doors at Karl's show thats it. 

Here's the 'It' bag everybody who's nobody is carrying at Fashion Week. Lots of free fashion magazines are handed out so you need something.

I head over to Le Japon Rive Gauche at Bon Marche to get me a dotty bag(11€).

The store is red dots and special Japanese designer popup shops.

There's even a place to chill between shows and go all Zen designed by Tadao Ando. The exposition is on till 18 October and ties in with the huge Hokusai exhibit just opened today at Grand Palais. Paris has gone Japanese for the duration through 18 January.

The perfect black and white Bento boxes (17€). Just add a gold chain and this could do fine at the Chanel show if you have a ticket. And look at these Chanel-esque kiddies shoes from Atsuko Matano(35€). If you have  tiny feet plus a white T and black skirt/pants you could really make a statement with these two don't you think? Now the trick is how to get a ticket to the show!?