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The Little Black Dress: How One Garment Redefined Elegance
How Coco Chanel turned a color of mourning into the most powerful piece of clothing a woman can own.
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How Coco Chanel turned a color of mourning into the most powerful piece of clothing a woman can own.
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Issued to sailors in 1913 and still hidden under shirts thirty years later, the white T-shirt went from underwear to uniform of rebellion in a single decade — and barely changed since.
Denim
The riveted pants a tailor built for Gold Rush miners — and how they took over the world.
Outerwear
A waterproof officer's coat from the First World War that never went out of style — and barely changed in a hundred years.
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.— Coco Chanel