In 1921, a very clever designer and businesswoman created a scent that revolutionised the way women smell. Getting on for 100 years later, Chanel No. 5 is still the world’s most iconic fragrance. Chanel was truly modern, ‘traversing the boundaries between lady and mistress’, as one commentator put it. She had plenty of ‘racy’ friends –
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.”
How Coco Chanel changed the course of women's fashion
In the fourth instalment of BoF’s fashion history series, we meet the creator of the ‘little black dress,’ who took her cues from a country in mourning. Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, the designer doyenne who founded fashion’s most famous house, used her lovers’ money to establish herself and rewrote the rulebook with her mannish collections.
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Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (1883-1971)
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