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42 F or a fleeting moment in December, the recently reopened Ritz Paris was made a scene straight from the life of Coco Chanel: From 1937 through World War II (including the Nazi occupation of Paris) and until her death in 1971, Mademoiselle Chanel lived at the Ritz, with her atelier just steps from the hotel's backdoor, on rue Cambon. The masterful Karl Lagerfeld, in homage to the re-entrée of the magnificent Ritz after its three-year renovation, commandeered the palace hotel for the Métiers d'Art collection, the house's annual pre-fall show which highlights the work of its couture ateliers and is oft staged in international destinations (Rome, Moscow, Shanghai, Scotland). Dallas was the site for the 2013 show, a Cowboy-chic spectacle unlike anything the world has ever seen. And this month, Chanel's Métiers d'Art returns — albeit in a more petite, traveling presentation. Tuesday, May 16, Chanel's stage will be our own Ritz, the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek — we're told no more than 150 will land invitations — during which the Métiers d'Art Pre-Fall 2017 collection will be artfully arranged throughout the hotel, and immediately available for perusing and pre-orders. Named the Paris Cosmopolite collection, it was shown in Paris in three tiers — during lunch, tea, and dinner — throughout the Ritz's main- floor Bar Vendôme, L'Espadon restaurant, library, and winter CHANEL COMETH THE FRENCH FASHION HOUSE BRINGS ITS MASTERFUL MÉTIERS D'ART COLLECTION TO DALLAS — FRESH FROM ITS DEBUT AT THE RITZ PARIS. BY CHRISTINA GEYER Photographs from Chanel Métiers d'Art Pre-Fall 2017 at the Ritz Paris