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Gabrielle Chanel and Britain
Discover how Chanel launched her business in the UK a century ago, in 1925, and why the relationship continues to flourish to this day.
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Past Event
Join us for a conversation between Oriole Cullen, Senior Curator of Fashion at the V&A, and Justine Picardie, Chanel biographer, to explore the origins of Chanel’s links with Britain that began in the early 1920s, and the creation of her sartorial vision that redefined modernity and independence for women around the world.
Header image: Gabrielle Chanel and Vera Bate in Scotland, ca. 1926 © Private Archives/All rights reserved. Courtesy of CHANEL