![]() ![]() KODA: To the uninitiated, it would seem very much like something a concierge might wear in an apartment building. STAMBERG: Harold Koda is co-curator of the Met's Chanel show. HAROLD KODA (Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art): It's a little black dress, a piece of black wool jersey that has been lined completely in silk satin. Oh, and in 1926, she invented a basic piece of female equipment. 5, still the world's top-selling perfume. She used soft tweeds, sewed braid along the edge of her jackets, put white fabric camellias on lapels, made purses of quilted leather and blackened the tips of her beige sling-back shoes, all in a mist of Chanel No. Mademoiselle Coco Chanel had a consistent fashion vocabulary. NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg reports. ![]() Clothes from the House of Chanel are on view today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. ![]() Next, we're going to examine the work of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, who's credited with freeing women's clothing from its old constraints. ![]()
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