CODE of HONOUR
It’s a chilly December evening inside Paris’s Grand Palais (1 degree Celcius, to be precise), and despite the historic Beaux-Arts venue being transformed into a series of salons fitted out to replicate Gabrielle Chanel’s apartment, its immense scale and soaring conservatory-style glass ceiling causes French actor/singer Vanessa Paradis to shiver and pull her shawl tighter over her short-sleeved dress and bare arms.
“Everyone is so much more ecologically conscious today and intent on reducing waste,” Paradis muses, leaning back on a sumptuous gold-beige suede couch that’s a carbon copy of the original from the second-floor rue Cambon digs. “Isn’t a collection like
