Fashion history: The Chanel jacket, the house's iconic design for 100 years

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Fashion history: The Chanel jacket, the house's iconic design for 100 years

A look back at the history of Chanel's most timeless item: the tweed jacket.

Fashion history: The Chanel jacket, the house's iconic design for 100 years

A Brief History on the Iconic Chanel Jacket

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Fashion history: The Chanel jacket, the house's iconic design for 100 years

The Little Book of Chanel by Lagerfeld: The Story of the Iconic Fashion Designer (Little Books of Fashion, 15)

Opening this Saturday, Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto is the first UK exhibition dedicated to the work of French couturière, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, charting the evolution of her iconic design style and the establishment of the House of CHANEL, from the opening of her first millinery boutique in Paris in 1910 to the showing of her […]

Fashion history: The Chanel jacket, the house's iconic design for 100 years

THE FASHION MANIFESTO: GABRIELLE CHANEL EXHIBITION IN LONDON - Numéro Netherlands

Fifty years after her death, the trailblazing designer’s influence on fashion lives on. Here are 8 important style innovations from a designer who once famously said: “I don’t do fashion. I am fashion.”

Fashion history: The Chanel jacket, the house's iconic design for 100 years

How Coco Chanel changed the course of women's fashion

Fashion history: The Chanel jacket, the house's iconic design for 100 years

1938 – Gabrielle Chanel, Red velvet suit

Distilling more than 100 years of fashion from the house of Chanel down to its essence in a mere 100 designs seems an impossible task. Yet Chanel: The Impossible Collection does just that, thanks to the astute eye of its author, well-known fashion journalist, critic and collector Alexander Fury. The latest publication in Assouline’s limited-edition Luxury […]

Fashion history: The Chanel jacket, the house's iconic design for 100 years

100 Designs That Encapsulate the Power of Chanel - 1stDibs Introspective

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Fashion history: The Chanel jacket, the house's iconic design for 100 years

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Fashion history: The Chanel jacket, the house's iconic design for 100 years

Friday essay: Chanel's complex legacy

Talking about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson, who had been riding ahead of the first couple in the fateful 1963 motorcade, recalled her most heart-rending memory of that da…

Fashion history: The Chanel jacket, the house's iconic design for 100 years

The secrets of Jackie's iconic pink Chanel suit

Fashion history: The Chanel jacket, the house's iconic design for 100 years

Coco Chanel - Quotes, Fashion & Facts

Images of JFK’s assassination, as well as images of Jackie wearing a Chanel suit stained with her husband’s blood, have been seared into history. In fact, the suit she wore that day is an integral part of American history, and was preserved and donated to the National Archives following her death. Although it has been decades since it was last seen, it is arguably one of the most referenced and revisited clothing items in history. Here is the full story behind the strawberry-pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat worn by the former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy on the day of her husband’s assassination.. Part of an ongoing series of 29Secrets stories, taking a deep dive into the history of legendary beauty produc

Fashion history: The Chanel jacket, the house's iconic design for 100 years

THE STORY OF: Jackie Kennedy's Pink Chanel Suit - 29Secrets