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Gabrielle Chanel has spent her life creating a new idea of the woman in motion, free, natural and jaunty.
Her timeless style remains current in its modernity.
The Palais Galliera, thanks to its reopening after its extension works, is dedicating a superb retrospective to the extent of its excessiveness, without extravagance, with perfect elegance.
From the start of her career until the end of her life in 1971, she opposed the fashion archetypes of her day. She knew how to appro- priate and interpret the functional and sober masculine wardrobe. Her legendary suit was born from this dandy notion of comfort in the flexibility of jersey and tweed. Since the 1910s, her little black dress has been a true essential icon that defies ephemeral fashions.
William Klein.
Dorothy and Little Bara dressed as a priest. Published in Vogue, October 1960.
© William Klein