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Women's Fashion History Through Newspapers: 1921-1940

You might be tempted to think of Coco Chanel as a frivolous fashion designer, but the woman was a revolutionary leader and an entrepreneur - changing the way women live, work, and think. Today, 44 years after her death, the name Chanel still sets the standard for elegance, and the family running the company are worth billions.

Fashion, Finance And Coco Chanel

Karl Lagerfeld, the creative director of Chanel, was hospitalised in Paris, France, on Monday 18 February and died the following morning following a reportedly secret battle with cancer. Here are 7 ways the white pony-tailed and dark sunglasses-wearing fashion pioneer changed the way we dress.

Karl Lagerfeld: 7 ways the Chanel designer transformed the fashion

Had it not been for Gabrielle Chanel's rule-breaking ways, wearing costume jewellery would still be considered a faux pas and for the have-nots.

How Coco Chanel Changed The Way We Wear Costume Jewellery

We were one of the first inside Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto: a new exhibition at the V&A

An exclusive look inside the new Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

Created in 1954, when Chanel was 71, the iconic Coco Chanel jacket changed the way women wore clothes. Read how this legacy survived and continues today.

How Coco Chanel's iconic jacket revolutionised women's clothing

Coco Chanel is synonymous with high fashion — the tweed suits, the quilted purses, the No. 5 perfume; In her new biography of the designer, “Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History,” which comes out today, author and professor Rhonda Garelick offers a few more enlightening tidbits you may not know about the the most important fashion designer of the 20th century.

8 Things You Didn't (But Need To!) Know About Coco Chanel