Chanel Collections and Creations

Founded in 1969, Graphic Image’s notebooks and accessories are united by the finest writing text paper, meticulously crafted smyth-sewn binding, and clean design. Working with tanneries in Italy and France and embracing at once the unconventional and the traditional, these are products that offer profound quality, functionality, and unyielding style. Here, the House of Chanel opens its private archives, revealing a galaxy of brilliant designs created by Coco Chanel from the 1920s onwards, and now reinterpreted to become the motifs for brand new garments, accessories, and beauty products. Inspired by the House’s signature fragrance, the legendary ‘Chanel No 5’, the book explores five central themes of the suit, the camellia, jewelry, fragrances and make-up, and the little black dress and follows the threads from past to present to show how these key items have been rediscovered and reinvented by fashion designers working in the footsteps of their illustrious predecessors. This visual journey is enhanced by previously unpublished archive photographs and original drawings by Karl Lagerfeld, as well as glorious images from some of the greatest names in fashion photography.