Fashion Changes but Style Endures by Mandy Dunning
Coco Chanel led an eventful life. She started out as a seamstress, a singer and a rich man’s play thing which led to a career making hats and then clothes for French high society.
She inhabited two worlds – the world of society and the one of the artist. Coco was at the centre of the 20th century’s creative explosion and dived headlong into the Parisian scene.
She is remembered not only for her style revolution – she gave the world the ‘little black dress’, quilted handbags and her suntan – but also for her lifestyle from a gilded age.
The Alchemist's Needle 