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1 GABRIELLE ‘COCO’ CHANEL certainly tailored her own bespoke path through life. She regularly de ed societal conventions throughout her 87 years ensuring her enduring independence, both nancial and personal, through hard work, boundless creativity, some questionable collaborations and most memorably with her elegant and restrained fashion

designs that liberated many of her contemporaries around the world. A risk-taker, she gave a hefty share of her Chanel No.5 fragrance business to the Wertheimer brothers who, in turn, grew it into rivers of gold globally. And she spent a good part of WWII holed up at the Ritz in Paris with her German lover – still, her enduring legacy is her incredible couture. And Australians are going to be able to take a stylish stroll through many of Coco Chanel’s elegant creations when the NGV is the rst to debut a specially curated exhibition outside of

France later this year. ‘Fashion Manifesto’, December 5 to April 25, 2022. ngv.vic.gov.au

2 EASY ELEGANCE Designer Daniel Boddam references contemporary and Modernist in uences and fuses them with an undeniably Australian aesthetic in his Coast collection. The ‘Booham’ chair can be ordered in a range of oak and American walnut nishes with bespoke upholstery. danielboddam.com 5 LOVE IS THE RUG A feeling of visual and

sensorial calm wafts through this space featuring one of Armadillo’s new handmade ‘slow’ designs. The company’s Certi ed B Corp accreditation and commitment to an inclusive and sustainable economy enhances the mood.

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3 IT’S JONES – GRACE JONES One of the glitterati for decades and, the life of the party this image of the incomparable Grace Jones is

just one of many that Australia’s own glitterati of the paparazzi took in his four

decades of shooting the absolutely fabulous. Celebrity

snapper Robert Rosen’s candid shots of subjects as varied as Yves Saint Laurent and Lady Sonia McMahon will make you long for the pre-Insta era! ‘Robert Rosen:

Glitterati’, Powerhouse Museum, August 6 to April 4, 2022. maas.museum/event/

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4 MASS SEDUCTION Costume National’s gorgeous, happy bottle bursting with promise and hope grabbed us immediately. ‘Supergloss’, a super-sensual spritz, is just what we all need now opulent red fruits fuse with delicate notes of lily of the valley and orange blossom for a rapturous result. libertineparfumerie.com.au