This was the most French Chanel show ever

• Eiffel Tower glinting majestically in the sun. Filmy black dresses fluttering in the breeze as the models stalked along a cobblestone catwalk by the Seine. Heavily bejewelled, boucle-jacketed clients fanning themselves (is a collective of Chanel haute-couture customers called a Tweed?). Models in boho headscarves and printed floaty dresses, which looked very 1970s St Tropez, and others dressed in boaters and gold-brocade skirt suits.