Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (1883-1971)

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.

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By Courtney Lyons This was originally submitted as my final paper for Barnard College- Columbia University’s “Consumer Culture in Modern Europe ” class on December 12th, 2019. The original footnotes style is not supported on this platform. Please excuse the makeshift citations. Gabrielle “C

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