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A lavish visual treatment of the life and times of Gabrielle Chanel, one of the great stories of the modern age.

Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Époque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the first ever couture perfume, N° 5; and the exqu

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A lavish visual treatment of the life and times of Gabrielle Chanel, one of the great stories of the modern age.

Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Époque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the first ever couture perfume, N° 5; and the exqu

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