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When Karl Lagerfeld took over Chanel in 1983, the house was on life support. Coco Chanel had died twelve years earlier, and the brand was frozen in time — respected, but irrelevant. The tweed suit, the camellia, the pearls, the quilted bag: all iconic, all dated. Younger women saw Chanel as their grandmother’s wardrobe. TheContinue reading “Karl Lagerfeld: Resurrecting Chanel (1983)”