How Coco Chanel changed the course of women's fashion

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.”

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Coco Chanel - Wikipedia

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.

Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (1883-1971)

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Why Coco Chanel Created the Little Black Dress

1920s Fashion Overview, History & Trends - Video & Lesson

Coco Chanel is a symbol for fashion and feminism. She's credited with designing the little black dress and the Chanel suit, after all. But hanging in her closet were a few pretty big skeletons, too.

How Global Icon Coco Chanel Reinvented Women's Fashion

In the 21st century, a woman can be whoever she wants to be – but it wasn’t always so. Discover how fashion has changed through the ages through feminism and a few key figures.

Past, present, future: A timeline of women's fashion - Hashtag Legend

Gabriel Chanel was a French low class girl who grew up with her sister in an orphanage after her father having abandoned them there. She never intended to be neither popular not even a dress maker; her aspirations were to be able to make a living by herself without a need for a husband. Her…

Coco Chanel ou la Femme au Garçon