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To mark the anniversary of Coco Chanel’s death, Emily Cope takes a look at the designer’s greatest fashion styles and her not-so fashionable personal life

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RICHARD AVEDON Photo Gravure Art 11x14. One of the most significant photographic artists of the 20th century, Avedon's iconic portrait and fashion

1958 Vintage GABRIELLE CHANEL COCO France Fashion Designer RICHARD AVEDON 11x14

You might be tempted to think of Coco Chanel as a frivolous fashion designer, but the woman was a revolutionary leader and an entrepreneur - changing the way women live, work, and think. Today, 44 years after her death, the name Chanel still sets the standard for elegance, and the family running the company are worth billions.

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Chanel staged an ode to Parisian elegance, Alexis Mabille sent his models down the runway with champagne coupes and Stéphane Rolland’s creations struck a bold and poetic note

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Download this stock image: Fashion designer Gabrielle Coco Chanel, left, during a rare occasion when she let herself be photographed, is congratulated by an unidentified journalist after the presentation of her collection in Paris, France, Feb. 2, 1966. (AP Photo) - 2NGC0FD from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

Fashion designer Gabrielle Coco Chanel, left, during a rare

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Paris Fashion Week AW21 womenswear report, featuring Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Loewe, Hermes, Rick Owens and Issey Miyake. This was fashion for life after lockdown.

Paris Fashion Week A/W 2021: fashion for life after lockdown

In moments of great upheaval—such as in France during the First World War—fashion becomes more than a means of personal expression. As women throughout the country mobilized in support of the war effort, discussions about women’s fashion bore the symbolic weight of an entire society’s hopes and fears. This exhibition represents an unprecedented examination of the dynamic relationship between fashion, war, and gender politics in France during World War I. Garments by Coco Chanel and Jeanne Lanvin, two of many French women leading fashion houses during World War I, will be displayed in the United States for the first time. The clothing and ephemera on view reveal wartime as a transitional period for fashion and women’s emancipation. Skirt suits, nurses’ and ambulance attendants’ uniforms, mourning dresses and muffs, chic “military style” hats, and clothing worn by remplaçantes, women who took on a variety of jobs previously occupied by men, demonstrate how French women of all social classes dressed themselves and why. Postcards, posters, caricatures, and fashion magazines highlight the tension between fashionable dress, traditional gender norms, and wartime imperatives. This discussion is framed by a larger examination of French fashion industry and the marketing and propaganda efforts undertaken by the French government, press, and designers to keep the fashion industry alive during the war. The work of Artists in Residence including Ellen Sampson, Emily Spivack, and The Rational Dress Society explores many of the themes highlighted in the exhibition, amplifying its contemporary resonance.

French Fashion, Women, and the First World War - Bard Graduate Center

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Coco Chanel & Misia Sert in Venice (1925)