The house of Chanel has always had deep links to the UK – stretching back a century, bang on this year. “I have always succeeded with the English, I don’t know why,” Gabrielle Chanel once said. The ‘why’ may be the fact that the tenets of dress that Chanel was so attracted to are, arguably, inherently British – pragmatism, ease and comfort, a general denouncing of the frill, sportswear worn as everyday wear (albeit riding habits and tweedhellip;

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