Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel saw how fashion, beauty and luxury had been during the Victorian era. She designed and re-designed hats as a seamstress in a shop before venturing out to develop the House of Chanel. Not only did Chanel design clothes — she re-designed the way women lived in their bodies. Her innovations weren’t trends;Continue reading “The 9 Innovations of Chanel: How Coco Changed Fashion (and Beauty) Forever”
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The Little Black Dress: Chanel’s Revolution
When Chanel introduced the little black dress in 1926, she wasn’t creating a trend. She was creating a language. Black, until then, belonged to mourning, uniforms, and the margins of fashion. It was not a colour of glamour, not a colour of modernity, not a colour a woman chose for herself. Chanel changed that withContinue reading “The Little Black Dress: Chanel’s Revolution”
