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Over the past century women as much as men have been the innovators in fashion, not just on the runway but also in the boardroom. Women such as Coco Chanel, Anne Klein, Norma Kamali and Vivienne Westwood have been some of the most adventurous and thoughtful players in the business. TIME has celebrated several of these great visionaries on its cover, including Elsa Schiaparelli and McCardell, as well as models like Claudia Schiffer. Our cover highlights another superstar model, Gisele Bundchen, as well as a host of women who have revolutionized fashion creatively and commercially...
...ocean liners created a craze for fashionable trunks. Vuitton's idea--to make them stackable and waterproof and, later, to cover them in logo-stamped canvas--was a hit. Soon a Who's Who of well-heeled world leaders was buying up Vuitton bed trunks and wardrobe cases. Even Coco Chanel couldn't resist, ordering one of the first Vuitton handbags. Today it's hard to walk through an airport or down an avenue without spotting an LV logo...
Male designers are well known for their visions of female sexuality and glamour, but for decades the behind-the-seams story of fashion has been the influence of women not as models, but as makers and marketers of clothes. Designers like Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli and, later, Donna Karan and Jil Sander conjured entire fashion universes and great fortunes with ideas that revolutionized the way women dressed. Madeleine Vionnet reshaped the silhouette with her bias cut one seam coiling around the body and enhanced 1930s screen stars' sex appeal. Claire McCardell's Popover dress answered the sartorial prayers...
Thebaud leads us into a stately common room decorated with modern art. The bedroom is spare, with a quote from Coco Chanel on the wall—“La mode, c’est ce qui se démod?...
...Costes were rumored to be in serious trouble. Yet the hotel became a profit machine, churning out about €3.8 million on revenue of about €18.4 million in 1999, the last year it reported figures. The ultimate secret ingredient is stardust, which is why Jean-Louis hired Claude "Coco" Bakonyi as schmoozer in chief. Bakonyi handled meet-and-greet chores for TV station Canal Plus, and made sure every guest who appeared on the station's popular Nulle Part Ailleurs broadcast ended up at Costes afterward. "We're not a palace, and we don't have the biggest rooms...