Coco Chanel

Chanel’s Reincarnation: It was time to show the origins of the Chanel jacket

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“Reincarnation,” the new short film by Karl Lagerfeld, featuring Pharrell Williams, Cara Delevingne and Géraldine Chaplin. Intensely criticized, Karl Lagerfeld’s latest Chanel short film revealed ahead of Chanel’s Metiers d’Art show in Salzburg (Austria), uses cinematic language to tell the history of Chanel cardigan-style jacket trimmed and decorated with black embroidery and gold-coloured buttons. The fans … Read more

#womenfashionpower: How influential women have used fashion to define and enhance their position in the world

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Women Fashion Power – Look at what the woman next to you is saying.   Confidence is very powerful. From Elizabeth I to Margaret Thatcher, Coco Chanel to Lady Gaga, the clothes women wear have always been a powerful form of self-expression and part of a sophisticated visual language. WOMEN FASHION POWER exhibition opened at Design … Read more

How the first world war changed women’s fashion

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A new book, Dressed for War, reveals how Land Girls, shorter hem lines and Coco Chanel marked a sea change in the way women dressed after world war one

John Galliano’s return is more than a matter of style. Fashion world, wake up

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Fashion should reflect real life. It needs to confront tricky issues, such as the return of the disgraced designer as creative director of Margiela, rather than looking away

Step back in time and retrace the “50s – fashion in France”. Haute Couture’s golden age

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In February 1947, the Christian Dior‘s first collection revolutionizes the codes of the fashion and the femininity. A new exhibition at the Parisian Palais Galliera titled “The 50s: Fashion in France, 1947-1957” returns on the great fashion moments of this decade considered the haute couture’s golden age. 100 outfits and accessories from the Palais Galliera- … Read more