For years, the luxury fashion house has been snapping up buildings and retail premises in the French capital's poshest neighbourhoods. But it has just suffered its first setback in the city's highly strategic Golden Triangle.
It was with a strongly worded statement, issued on 3 October, that Paris's departmental commission for commercial development rejected a project to house a 546m2 Chanel shop on the corner of the Rue François 1er and the Rue Marbeuf, in the heart of the French capital's so-called Golden