Designer's Cut

The tweed suit. The quilted bag. The little black dress. These high fashion status symbols are the instantly recognizable and treasured signatures of the French house of Chanel. The house that Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel began in 1909 freed women from corsets and encourages them to wear trousers. Chanel quickly became the definition of chic, and grew to represent the ultimate in luxury. After Coco Chanel’s death in 1971, the label lost some of its momentum, until Karl Lagerfeld took the reins in 1983 and changed the course of fashion history. Lagerfeld produces endless, innovative variations on Chanel’s iconic signatures – continuing, as Coco herself did, to hold up a mirror to modern times!