"nothing is more beautiful than the freedom of the body."
-chanel

Chanel's 2.55 bag was named after the month and year of its release.

The designer first came up with the idea for a practical shoulder bag in 1929 when "sick and tired of holding my handbags and losing them, I stuck a strap on them and wore them slung across by shoulder."
Lagerfeld enlarged the 2.55 bag into attache dimensions and created the female executive's equivalent of the briefcase.

chanel handbag atelier (looks like a laboratory with everyone in white coats!)