On right, Winston Churchill accompanied by his son Randolph and Coco Chanel at a meet of the Duke of Westminster's boar hounds, the 'Mimizan Hunt' near Dampierre, northern France on Jan. 1, 1928.
Chanel was a pioneer of a postwar, modern aesthetic for women in the 1920s that embraced comfort and freedom in silhouettes over the restrictive corsets and petticoats. “Luxury must be comfortable,” she said, and her designs utilized typical menswear shapes and materials, such as jersey, to achieve this. Chanel looked beyond the mannequin and saw the real woman who would be wearing her clothes.