Word: chanelling
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...COCO'S CLASSIC The contrasting-trim look emerges in 1955 and continues as a classic into the 1960s, when Chanel's suits become de rigueur for the ladies who lunch...
...THOROUGHLY MOD MADEMOISELLES Chanel detested miniskirts. She found the knees to be the most unattractive part of a woman's body and insisted that all skirts fall just below. Of course, in 1966, while Pierre Cardin and Paco Rabanne dominate the fashion headlines, Chanel can't stop guests at her haute couture show at the rue Cambon salon in Paris from displaying lots of leg. (The only woman pictured who isn't holding up the house's tweed tradition is Barbra Streisand, far left...
...LOST DECADE After Chanel's death in 1971, the studio is led by her former assistants. Cheryl Tiegs and Catherine Deneuve are hired to jazz things up, but it doesn't work...
...POWER look "Chanel established a look that is for our century what the two- and three-button suit is for men," Lagerfeld said in 1989. The tweed suit comes back into power...
...HANG 10 Lagerfeld surfs past the competition by combining the language of Chanel with the patois of the street and cutting the jacket into surf-inspired shapes...