THE FASHION OF COCO BEFORE CHANEL

IN STYLE has a very extravagant slideshow entirely devoted to ANNE FONTANE’S COCO BEFORE CHANEL.

It opened yesterday in NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES.

Costume designer CATHERINE LETERRIER talked to the magazine about how she approached the task of dressing the character of GABRIELLE CHANEL before she became the renowned international icon that we know today.

She said that Ms. Chanel’s love for black (when all the other women were wearing pale pastels) was almost scandalous for that particular era.

Well, that explains my wardrobe…

To find the gallery, please go here