Chanel homage to Coco at the Ritz

The legendary French fashion label Chanel paid homage to its founder Coco Chanel Tuesday with a show at the Ritz in Paris.

Pillbox hats with netted veils, long woolly jumpers and scarves, tweed suits glittering with gorgeous inlay and pearls aplenty, you half expected Mademoiselle Chanel to appear for afternoon tea with one of her ne'er do well aristocratic lovers.

The redoubtable designer spent a large part of her life living in a suite in the swish hotel, including most controversially during World War II, when a German intelligence officer, Baron Hans Gunther von Dincklage, shared her bed.