Chanel’s Double C: The Story Behind Fashion’s Most Iconic Logo
Even before tweed, the petite robe noire, and the No. 5, there were two mirrored letters, intertwined and opposite, that for a century have functioned as a universal signature: the Chanel CC monogram. And today, August 19th, the day Gabrielle Chanel was born in Saumur in 1883, that double C once again reminds us how a single graphic symbol can contain an entire biography.