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Chanel ponders paradoxes of its raison d’être in latest film retrospective

November 14, 2016

Video still from Inside Chanel chapter 17, “The Paradoxes of Chanel” Video still from Inside Chanel chapter 17, “The Paradoxes of Chanel”

 

By Jen King

In the seventeenth installment of Inside Chanel, the French atelier explores how its founder leveraged style, material and feminine paradoxes to establish the ultimate expression of luxury.

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