"Thank you for coming all the way from Paris
to visit me here in Lausanne.

I'm glad you are sitting on the little bank
I have imagined for my visitors
so that they stay a little longer
and talk to me.

I'm so glad my little jewel has helped you in life.
When you have no money behind you
everything is so much more difficult.
I'm so glad the jewel has brought you luck.



You were very lucky to be able to meet
Aimée de Heeren.
She was so beautiful people were speachless.
Can't beleive she lived so long.
The 63 years age difference between you and Aimée
is magical ...

She has connected you with people
the barriers of time made impossible to meet
and through her
we have become my friend
even though I'm 83 older than you.

And this story
makes me become friends
with people that are even younger.





Your uncle Dmitri Romanov would be glad as well.
He died over 20 years before you were born.
He was so glamorous
and it was so difficult for him
to have lost everything in Russia.

One day you need to buy the jewel back.
This jewel was very special.
It survived the Revolution
helped me to create N°5
and accompanied me all my life.



But the most important is ...

Never forget to give a little help
to young people that cross your path.

With the Cremeries you will run
into many exceptional fashion designers.

When they are at their start
and they have nothing
like the young Coco Chanel
you need to help them a little.

And you know from the skies
I see a lot of things.
Every time there is a cocktail party
at the Cremerie de Paris
I'm am there !!

Everything always needs to be
"vb, very beautiful"

I'm so glad my beloved Cremerie de Paris
has come back to life ...


imaginary conversation with Coc Chanel in Lausanne
2018 january 1