Chanel vs Dior: should fashion free the body or frame it?

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COCO CHANEL vs CHRISTIAN DIOR go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

COCO CHANEL

I gave women trousers, jersey, and pockets - I set them loose to move, to breathe, to live.

CHRISTIAN DIOR

And I gave them the New Look: the cinched waist, the blooming skirt, the return of glory after the ruin of war.

COCO CHANEL

Glory? You padded and corseted them back into cages I spent my life unlocking - luxury is freedom, not upholstery.

CHRISTIAN DIOR

But a woman is not a chair to be stripped bare, Mademoiselle; I did not confine her, I crowned her.

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