This Season’s Chanel Muse Is None Other Than Coco Herself Inline
Photo: Marcus Tondo / Indigital.tv; Photographed by Cecil Beaton1/6Pearls were essential to Coco Chanel’s personal style. Nearly every photo of the designer shows her wrapped under strands of pearls or with oversize studs in her ears. On the runway, Lagerfeld interpreted this with layered pearl necklaces of various sizes and lengths.
Photo: Marcus Tondo / Indigital.tv; Apic / Getty Images2/6Coco loved a hat, whether it was a tightly wrapped turban or a wide-brimmed sun hat. Her favorite, though, was the boater, which Lagerfeld remade in leather with a leather chin strap.
Photo: Marcus Tondo / Indigital.tv; Sasha / Stringer / Getty Images3/6One of Coco’s earliest innovations in fashion was the Chanel suit, a set that allowed women to ditch their corsets and move about the world freely, unrestricted by their garments. For herself, Coco often chose mid-length tweed versions with kicky pleats, which arrived on the runway this season with high slits where the pleats would have been.
Photo: Marcus Tondo / Indigital.tv; Photographed by Horst P. Horst4/6When she wasn’t wearing a hat, Coco preferred a ribbon worn in her hair. Lagerfeld has given models this look several times over, but this season he combined Coco’s bows with her pearls, accenting necklaces with pink ribbons featuring Chanel logos.
Photo: Marcus Tondo / Indigital.tv; Photographed by Henry Clarke5/6On her non-pearl-wearing days, Coco tended to pin her blouses together with a Byzantine cross or similarly shaped brooch. Lagerfeld did her one better, affixing the piece to the pearl necklaces he created for Fall.
