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A pink tweed two-piece worn by the actor Lauren Bacall on a holiday in Biarritz in 1959 and a minimalist black silk trouser suit in which the fashion editor Diana Vreeland entertained at home in New York will be among the outfits on display in Lon Don in the autumn, when the exhibition Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto opens at the V&A.

The first Chanel retrospective to be staged by a major British museum, the show has been significantly expanded from versions previously staged in Paris and Melbourne. Of the 200 outfits on display, 122 are new additions. The curator Oriole Cullen, who also masterminded the V&A’s most recent fashion blockbuster, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, said the team had “scoured international collections for never seen before pieces, some over 100 years old”.

The new additions include vintage pieces from the personal wardrobe of the mid-century supermodel Anne Gunning, a favourite subject of the photographer Norman Parkinson in the 1950s, which were donated to the V&A by her family after her death in 1990. Coco Chanel was an admirer of Gunning’s beauty, making several attempts to cast the model in her Rue Cambon catwalk shows. (Gunning, who preferred photographic work to runway modelling, demurred.) The seven looks bequeathed by Gunning, later Lady Nutting, include a 1954 burgundy tweed skirt suit with navy revere collar and cuffs, complete with the bow-trimmed navy sweater supplied as an accompanying layer, and a 1956 black lace strapless evening gown.

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