I’m feeling nostalgic and wanted to revisit one of my favorite fall collections from Chanel.

Karl Lagerfeld rekindled the special feelings for Moscow that Coco herself felt, as she enjoyed a romance with the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich. As a result of her affair, she created the Cuir de Russie fragrance (an early prototype of Chanel No. 5) in 1927. Thirty years later, in 1967, she revisited Moscow to show one of her last collections there.

Chanel resurrected the ultimate in Tsarina opulence for this collection by combining French joie de vivre with Russian mystery. Shown here is the 2.55 in boiled wool and adorned with jeweled symbols in the typical Russian noble style.

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