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In the ’20s Coco Chanel ushered in a sleek, contemporary silhouette by way of the now ubiquitous LBD. During his 36-year tenure at Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld continued his predecessor’s legacy, creating knockout black dresses that ruled the red carpet and made for Haute Couture catnip to his muses for decades. Here we chart 22 of his greatest creations.
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Julianne Moore, 2016
Dazzling at the 2016 Oscars wearing a custom plunging Chanel gown accented with ostentatious glitter, inspired by the maison’s Haute Couture spring 2016 collection.
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Claudia Schiffer, 1995
Schiffer closed many a Lagerfeld Chanel show, here proving her supermodel merit at the 1995 Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a plunging corsage-detail gown.
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Willow Smith, 2016
Proving herself the ultimate muse, Smith arriving at the maison’s Metier’s D’Art 2016 show in Paris, wearing Chanel, naturally.
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Kristen Stewart, 2016
Lagerfeld favourite Stewart has worn Chanel countless times on the red carpet. Here she pulls off rebel chic in a cage-detail creation first worn by Binx Walton on the fall 2016 runway.
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Chloë Sevigny, 2016
At the 11th annual Chanel Tribeca Film Festival Artists Dinner at Balthazar in New York Sevigny sported a leather dress and jacket and grungy lace tights from Chanel’s pre-fall 2016 collection.
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Emma Stone, 2017
Stone proving why she was a Lagerfeld muse at the 2017 BAFTAs in London, wearing a floral embroidered Chanel gown with matching trousers from the maison’s Haute Couture spring 2017 collection.
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Margot Robbie, 2018
Robbie wears a ruffled Chanel LBD with tasseled details from the house’s Haute Couture fall 2017 collection at the Charles Finch And Chanel Pre-Oscar Awards Dinner in Beverly Hills.
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Cameron Diaz, 2007
Diaz dazzled at the Shrek the Third London premiere wearing a Chanel camelia-motif halterneck dress.
