Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883–1971) and the House of Chanel, Essay, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883–1971) and the House of Chanel, Essay, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gabrielle Chanel was born in 1883 in Saumur to a peasant mother who tragically died and pedlar father who abandoned her at a young age (Baudot 1996). Chanel's designs liberated women's fashion and she is seen as the inventor of sports fashion. Chanel's simplified designs appealed to women who wanted to look sporty as she…

Critical Analysis: Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (1883-1971)

Janet Flanner’s 1931 Profile of Coco Chanel. “The key to her peculiar genius and its sartorial consequences may lie in the fact that Chanel, most Parisian and expensive couturier of her epoch, was born poor and in the country.”

Coco Chanel's Revolutionary Style

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Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel, Dress, 1926 - Alain.R.Truong

House of Chanel, Hat, French

House of Chanel, Dress, French

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