Coco Chanel · every age
What was Coco Chanel doing at 49?
Orphanage seamstress; remade fashion at 30 and again at 70
- c. 1933
Diamond jewellery with Paul Iribe; first camellia on a suit
Pieces commissioned by the diamond merchants' guild. The camellia became a house emblem.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Portrait: Photo: Los Angeles Times (1931), UCLA Library, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · source