Chloe Sevigny

Black and white collocation and style of Chanel are in utter harmony.

Claudia Schiffer

Golden chains and elegant and graceful printed grain show its elegance、superior quality.

Demi Moore

Black handbag gives low-key costly.

Emma Watson

Japanned leather for the modern urban woman.

Lily Allen

Fashion type stylish fur clothing and classical Chanel , these collocation are proper.

The most beautiful combination of colours: red and black ,lets a person shine at the moment.

Strictly speaking,Chanel 2.55 are the bags designed by Coco Chanel in 1955. However, the handbag line is so classical that Chanel has never felt it out of things over this long period. Especially since Karl Lagerfeld took over the brand in 1983, its soul has been carried out because of nonstop new elements. We generally referred to Chanel 2.55 today include original bag designed in 1955、classic flap designed by Karl Lagerfeld、duplicate plates .

Chanel Classic Flap

It is translated as “classic ” because its name contains a word “classic”. In fact, Classic Flap is the collection of Coco Chanel’s design made a little change after deduction .

Chanel Reissue 2.55

In 2005, in order to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Chanel 2.55 , Lafayette reissued 2.55. It strictly followed the design of Coco Chanel and named Reissue.

The handbag line Chanel 2.55 is so popular and widely concerned .In addition to its elegant style and initiative spirit, exquisite workmanship is also a big selling point.

It took 6 to 15 workers more than 8 hours to make up a handbag Chanel 2.55. It has amount to 180 working procedure. They used machine for cutting work on leather 、inside lining and most assembly being done by hand. Every step from suture 、color and degree of wear to product sales will be inspected strictly. To make sure it has the ability to adapt themselves to foreign climates, they would be taken to hi-tech executive laboratory and taken the proof by extreme environmen. The test for resistance to ultraviolet radiation 、resistance to fracture and waterproofness is found nowhere else in the world. However, Chanel never gives it up.

To trace the origins of the Chanel 2.55 ,we have to go back over fifty years .

Square buckle :it even has a name- mademoiselle. In French , mademoiselle means miss .This conveys the idea Coco Chanel did marry.

Double chains:Coco Chanel’s childhood losed her mother and grew up in the orphanage. It sounds terrible that janitor in the orphanage locked children up with chains. She thought of the chains when designed the strap for the handbag.

3 inner bags :pouch for putting lipstick, inner bag with zippers, front compartment.

Front compartment:it is said that she fell in love when she was in orphanage. As for Coco Chanel ,front compartment was a nice place for putting love letter.

Purple interlining:purple was the colour of the children’s clothes in the orphanage

Back compartment：she put change in it.

The same as metal strap,famous lozenge grain filtered into people’s minds. As it is learn to all, lozenge grain was inspired by knight coat in the 20th century.

Do you know where the name “2.55″ in hot pursuit came from and why it made other stars thunder overshadowed?

As a matter of fact, the answer is very simple. The collection named “2.55″ just because it was born in February.1955.

In 1950′s , women undertook the more and more social responsibility and role. Coco Chanel had greatly for certain to this problem experience. She started to improve the design on the base of fashion bags of the time. those were the first bags with straps. People at that time always associated bags and working class instead of elegant mademoiselle. From then on , Chanel 2.55 maybe had started a revolution in the handbags world. Its classic modernity creates the perfect blend of visual appeal and practicability.

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