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May 31, 2024 · Coco Chanel was a French fashion designer who ruled Parisian haute couture for almost six decades. Among her now-classic innovations were the Chanel suit, the quilted purse, costume jewelry, and the little black dress.
Jun 10, 2023 · Ahead of the upcoming Chanel exhibition at the V&A, revisit five style signatures that Coco Chanel invented.
Among the key designers who made a bold and lasting impression on women’s fashion in the twentieth century, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883–1971) deserves special recognition. Born in Saumur, in the Loire Valley of France, Chanel survived an impoverished childhood and strict convent education.
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (/ ʃ ə ˈ n ɛ l / shə-NEL, French: [ɡabʁijɛl bɔnœʁ kɔko ʃanɛl] ⓘ; 19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post– World War I era with popularizing a sporty, casual chic as ...
Apr 2, 2014 · With her trademark suits and little black dresses, fashion designer Coco Chanel created timeless designs that are still popular today.
Jan 9, 2021 · “Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body,” she once said, and her designs lived by these words: Chanel’s silhouettes were fluid and androgynous, her designs loose and – in the case...
More than any other designer of the twentieth century, Coco Chanel revised and adapted fashion to the tenets of utility and integrity of materials, tenets that are the defining features of...
