Chanel didn't invent a new aesthetic in a vacuum—she encoded into fabric the power and freedom that men possessed and that women were denied. The less constricting clothes gave women literal room to move, turning an unmet personal desire into a wearable product. Products that solve the founder's own felt lack tend to resonate because that lack is almost always widely shared.
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