Coco Chanel's colours

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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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Coco Chanel was born in 1883 and now, after almost 135 years, Chanel is still one of the most important brands in the fashion world! A recognizable, strong, elegant and modern brand. From straw hats

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Coco Chanel revolutionised the way women smell with her fragrance Chanel No 5 - worn by Marilyn Monroe, the perfume was created 90 years ago this month.

Chanel No 5: The story behind the classic perfume - BBC News

A fashion professor has raised an interesting point I've never thought about before: Was Coco Chanel's success tied, partially, to the fact that she never married? The designer wasn't without her share of long-term, emotionally charged love affairs; one theory for the beyond-famous interlocking C's is that the logo was created as a way to immortalize the love between Chanel and Boy Capel after he passed away. But lovers aside, no one ever put a ring on it. "For Chanel and young divorcée Madeleine Vionnet, their single status, atypical for the time, meant radically rethinking their relationship to the male gaze and therefore to style," Alice Litscher, a professor in fashion communication at the Institut Français de la Mode in Paris, told The Guardian. "Vionnet's loose bias cuts or Coco's tweeds expressed a radical sense of liberation from classical femininity and seduction." Chanel was paramount in changing how women viewed style, introducing comfortable jersey and taking inspiration from the uniforms of sailors, both of which combined to create the easy shifts we still wear today (Downton Abbey watchers, think about when you first noticed the female characters' costumes begin to change—that would've been Chanel's influence at play). Have you read