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her experiences of love and loss, of trying to find strength and self-expression are universal and I think that is what makes her designs, and also her perfumes, so resonant, so expressive, so powerful, so potent and so alluring. But before Chanel was a couturier, she was a milliner and also proved herself a shrewd businesswoman and entrepreneur

True to style, the collection was at once fierce and delicate, deftly employing the houses characteristic sharp tailoring and haunting elegance to dramatic effect

Those wearing pants should opt for a tuxedo with tails paired with a white cummerbund and, you guessed it, a white bowtie

XL: front length 59.7 in, hip 37.8 in, bust 18.7 in, waist 31.6 in