La Pausa " le coeur de la mer" by Chanel

He did it again. This time Karl Laghrfield filled the glass-domed Beaux-Arts exhibition hall of the Grand Palais with a 500ft ocean linear named La Pausa. The set was under a star-studded sky, twin funnels belching steam in anticipation of departure, while the light from a misty moon played on gentle waves. The effect was like an theatrical set or a James Cameron film. And it demanded an equally gorgeous collection to set it off.

La Pausa has a long history with the house of Chanel, one that started with its founder, Coco, back in the early 1930s. La Pausa in a real life villa thatonce belonged to the legendary designer, nestled between the french regions of Monte Carlo and Menton near the eastern end of the french Riviera. It was counstructed in 1928 by the architect Robert Sreitz for Chaneland her lover Hugh Grosvenor, the second Duke of Westminster. The design was said to resemble the convent orphanage in which she was raised. It was only home she ever own, until it was sold in1953.