coco chanel

     

She created her No. 5 perfume in 1922

Trivia about coco chanel

  • Her No. 5 perfume was later joined by Nos. 22 & 19
  • She was 86 when the Broadway musical about her premiered in 1969
  • Lift a cup of "Coco" to this designer, whose little black dress of decades past is still fashion forward today
  • "C.C.", this Frenchwoman was famed for designing simple, elegant suits with braided trim & gold link chains
  • This couturiere's iconic collarless jacket of 1954 is still part of her line today
  • Frenchwoman whose ever-chic suit features a boxy jacket with a weighted metal chain sewn into the inside hem