As with all good stories, this one begins with a love affair. Gabrielle Chanel met the Duke of Westminster in the mid-1920s, amid the vast, wild hills and valleys of the Scottish countryside. Chanel, however, was not sartorially equipped for the punishing landscape and weather, and had to borrow the duke’s tweed jackets for the couple’s outdoor excursions. One love affair became two, and Chanel adapted the warm, woolly fabric with its distinctive weave for her fashion collections.
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