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248. $50,000 Jackets in a Dirty Subway?! Diane Gilman Reacts
Diane Gilman, longtime designer and fashion insider, uses Chanel as the ultimate case study in how fashion can shape real life—and how today’s luxury world is squandering that legacy. From Coco Chanel’s orphanage roots and her “inventions” (pockets in women’s clothes, knit dressing, the little black dress, costume jewelry, the 2.55 bag, and named perfume) to Karl Lagerfeld’s supermodel-filled, high-energy reinvention in the 80s and 90s, Diane traces how the brand once defined comfort, minimalism, and modern womanhood.
She contrasts that golden history with a recent Chanel show staged in a…
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