In 1926, Chanel introduced her firstlittle black dress, reclaiming a color that had once beenreserved for mourningandworking-class women. That same decade, she debuted her perfume, Chanel No. 5, as well as theChanel suitwith a fittedskirt, inspired by the boxy lines of men’s clothing and...
< p > Chanel 5 is the first truly Abstract Perfume: it does not have a single main fragrance, but a complex flavor mixed with more than 80 flavors. Jacques Bo, Chanel's exclusive fragrance master, called this avant garde bold perfume a wonderful symphony of olfactory. In the rendering of...
with high cheekbones, an upturned nose with nostrils, as she said, ‘like tunnels,’ brilliant black eyes like buttons, and a gash for a mouth. Her hands were delicate, of a skin with a white sheen on it, and so strong that they could shoe a horse. She wore no red on her fingern...
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