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Yufei Xiang, Textile Conservator, National Museums Scotland, installs a rare 1926 Chanel dress at the National Museum of Scotland ahead of the opening ofBeyond the Little Black Dress on 1 July. The new style, hailed by US Vogue at the time as “the frock that all the world will wear”, combined couture details with modest origins and secured Chanel’s reputation as the inventor of the fashionable ‘LBD’. On loan from Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum. © Chanel. Image credit Duncan McGlynn

Yufei Xiang, Textile Conservator, National Museums Scotland, installs a rare 1926 Chanel dress at the National Museum of Scotland ahead of the opening ofBeyond the Little Black Dress on 1 July. The new style, hailed by US Vogue at the time as “the frock that all the world will wear”, combined couture details with modest origins and secured Chanel’s reputation as the inventor of the fashionable ‘LBD’. On loan from Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum. © Chanel. Image credit Duncan McGlynn

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Heidi Blöcher, Textile Conservator, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, installs a rare 1926 Chanel dress at the National Museum of Scotland ahead of the opening of Beyond the Little Black Dress on 1 July. The new style, hailed by US Vogue at the time as “the frock that all the world will wear”, combined couture details with modest origins and secured Chanel’s reputation as the inventor of the fashionable ‘LBD’. On loan from Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum. © Chanel. Image credit Duncan McGlynn

Heidi Blöcher, Textile Conservator, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum, installs a rare 1926 Chanel dress at the National Museum of Scotland ahead of the opening of Beyond the Little Black Dress on 1 July. The new style, hailed by US Vogue at the time as “the frock that all the world will wear”, combined couture details with modest origins and secured Chanel’s reputation as the inventor of the fashionable ‘LBD’. On loan from Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum. © Chanel. Image credit Duncan McGlynn

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