Chanel has a long history with beaches – not just those 1991 wet-look wetsuit-inspired sequinned mini-dresses designed by Karl Lagerfeld, although those are fantastic enough alone. Gabrielle Chanel first sold clothes on the beachfront in Deauville, and filched her signature jersey fabric from the underwear worn by sailors nearby. And, as just about everybody now knows after Matthieu Blazy’s sensational Biarritz-blitz of a Chanel cruise show on Tuesday, it was in thathellip;

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