Shanghai sets the scene for Chanel exhibition

A focus dedicated to the famous braided tweed suit, to the two-tone pumps and to the 2.55 quilted bag, allows us to decipher the Chanel codes. The costume and fine jewellery presented with lamé suits, in contrast with the sobriety of her clothes, recall her art in the handling of paradoxes.

The exhibition ends with a selection of models and two films presenting the last collections created by Gabrielle Chanel, showing the consistency with which she pursued and adapted her proposals. Faithful to her own style and positioning herself at odds with the fashion of her time, she was resolutely avant-garde. "One could say that Chanel barely or never varies her line but this is precisely her strength," reports Vogue Paris in April 1921.