La Cote des Montres: CHANEL 18, Place Vendôme - Paris: the iconic

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The sun has set. Gabrielle Chanel leaves her couture house at 31 rue Cambon, and walks to her suite at the Ritz on Place Vendôme, almost as if this familiar landscape is already part of her future. As she comes up to the window, lighting a cigarette, who knows what she is looking at, what she is observing? Where on Place Vendôme she might rest her gaze, breathing in its air deeply as one might inhale the fragrance of a sprig of jasmine? Who knows where her mind wanders as the streetlamps are lit one by one around the stone octagon, tracing its perfect geometry, barely touched by the silhouettes of passers-by? Gabrielle puts out her cigarette, takes off her shoes, and casts her gaze around the familiar square. At this time of day, in the shifting shadows of twilight, the townhouses are slowly dissolving in the velvety evening air. At this moment, Gabrielle cannot imagine that one of them, n°18 to be precise, will become the precious home of CHANEL.

France has given birth to many great fashion legends: Christian Dior (a Sciences Po graduate), Hermès, Christian Louboutin, and Yves Saint Laurent, to name a few of my personal favorites. There is one, however, who is more legendary than all others, who shaped women's fashion for her time and for decades to come. Gabrielle "Coco"…

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