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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How Coco Chanel changed the course of women

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Coco is a pillar in the evolution of the modern womens’ business and evening ware; she wanted traditional silhouettes and colors to be replaced with simple silhouettes and a variation of blue and grey colour pallets.

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Click through to read the fascinating history of the little black dress, including Coco Chanel

History Of The Little Black Dress From Coco Chanel To Audrey Hepburn

Over the past 1,000 years, the female form has been shaped and shifted through various artificial means to achieve societal ideals of beauty, often with exaggerated results. Whalebone corsets, for example, were meant to help women achieve an extreme hourglass shape, while the binding of feet sought to produce small “lotus feet.” In the West

A Brief Look at the Evolution of Women's Fashion - Phoenix Art Museum

From a poorhouse in Saumur, to a Catholic orphanage in the Dordogne to a nightclub stage in Moulins, Coco Chanel’s life did not truly take off until she moved to the fashion capital of Paris. Here…

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