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Coco Chanel created a look for her era and beyond. She was, without doubt, the most influential fashion designer of the 20th century, years ahead of her time. Her clothes, cuts and accessories have remained eternally chic. Her influence is honoured here by celebrating the key elements that defined and still define her style for every generation, through inspired pairings of classic and contemporary photographs. Chanels legendary fashion house continues to exert a powerful influence over the imagination of todays designers and to captivate a huge audience with an insatiable appetite for one of fashions undisputed style perennial.