Coco Chanel: How the fashion designer's legacy lives on 50 years after her death
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To mark the anniversary of Coco Chanel’s death, Emily Cope takes a look at the designer’s greatest fashion styles and her not-so fashionable personal life
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Coco Chanel: How the fashion designer's legacy lives on 50 years after her death