What do you know about Coco Chanel? Some people know nothing of the woman who built the fashion empire and see Chanel bags as a status symbol for the material girls among us. If you follow business and culture, you may know that she was the sole fashion designer on TIME’s most influential people of the 20th century list. If you find yourself steeped in the world of fashion and design, you might know Chanel as a liberator of women: before her, we wore corsets, giant hats and billowing layers designed to keep our bodies, and therefore, our minds and desires still. Before all the clothes you love today: stretch, leggings, athleisure and black beyond funerals, there were a small group of female designers in the 20th century who changed how we dress (or dressed us for change), Chanel the most famous of them all.
"Inside Chanel"
"Inside Chanel"
"Inside Chanel"
What do you know about Coco Chanel? Some people know nothing of the woman who built the fashion empire and see Chanel bags as a status symbol for the material girls among us. If you follow business and culture, you may know that she was the sole fashion designer on TIME’s most influential people of the 20th century list. If you find yourself steeped in the world of fashion and design, you might know Chanel as a liberator of women: before her, we wore corsets, giant hats and billowing layers designed to keep our bodies, and therefore, our minds and desires still. Before all the clothes you love today: stretch, leggings, athleisure and black beyond funerals, there were a small group of female designers in the 20th century who changed how we dress (or dressed us for change), Chanel the most famous of them all.