1930s New Yorker article: Coco Chanel's revolutionary style
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1931/03/14/31-rue-cambon I'm still just dipping my toes in fashion history, but it's cool to read contemporary accounts of stuff. Lots of interesting echoes with today in how designers get inspiration from sports clothing, working class style, etc.
The New Yorker
Janet Flanner’s 1931 Profile of Coco Chanel, whose peculiar genius may lie in the fact that she, the most expensive couturier of her time, was born poor.
