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Traveling a Hard Road to the Little Black Dress

WHEN Coco Chanel died in 1971 at the age of 87, she left more than a legendary quilted handbag and a trail of Chanel No. 5 in her wake.
A rebel and a pioneer as well as a designer, she freed women for the 20th century, replacing their corsets and lace frills with sailor shirts and wool jersey and democratizing elegance in the form of the Little Black Dress.
Her storied life — from lowly beginnings to the pinnacle of French couture, with controversial love affairs, bons mots, business failures and comebacks along the way — made her one of France’s most celebrated 20th-century heroines. [...]

di Kristin Hohenadel, articolo completo (9173 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 20 Settembre 2009