Chanel Espadrille 37 Lambskin Leather Cap Toe Flats CC-0523N-0194
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 37 Lambskin Leather Cap Toe Flats CC-0523N-0194
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 38 Tweed CC Cap Toe Flats CC-0525N-0208
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 40 Stitch Canvas CC Cap Flats CC-1109P-0008
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 38 Tweed Leather Cap Toe Flats CC-0916N-0002
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 35 Tweed Leather Cap Toe Flats CC-S0224P-0004
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 38 CC Leather Cap Toe Flats CC-0717N-0003
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille Double Stacked 37 Leather CC Flats CC-0712N-0017
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 40 Stitch Canvas CC Cap Flats CC-1109P-0008
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 37 Leather CC Cap Toe Flats CC-0503N-0142
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 38 Velvet Cap Toe CC Flats CC-0502N-0130
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 36 Leather Cap Toe CC Flats CC-0505N-0162
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 37 Leather CC Cap Toe Flats CC-0508N-0167
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 38 Lambskin CC Monogram Beige Flats CC-0928P-0006
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 37 Leather Cap Toe CC Flats CC-0502N-0131
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 36 Leather Cap Toe CC Flats CC-0402N-0098
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
Chanel Espadrille 36 Leather Cap Toe CC Flats CC-0402N-0098 These fun Chanel Beige and Black
Chanel Espadrille 38 CC Ballerina Canvas Linen Flats CC-0717N-0007
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 37 Lambskin Monogram Ballerina CC Flats CC-0228N-0055
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 37 Diamond Quilted Leather Chain Flats CC-0322N-0078
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 38 Wool Cap Toe CC Sandals CC-0502N-0134
By Chanel
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Chanel Espadrille 38 Leather Cap Toe CC Flats CC-0322N-0084
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 35 Leather Cap Toe CC Flats CC-0322N-0083
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 38 CC Raw Canvas Woven Flats CC-0508N-0168
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 38 Noir Canvas Linen CC Flats CC-0225N-0045
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 36 Monogram Canvas Diamond Quilted CC Flats CC-0321N-0076
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
Chanel Espadrille 36 Monogram Canvas Diamond Quilted CC Flats CC-0321N-0076 These fun Chanel
Chanel Espadrille 37 Lambskin Leather Rubber Platform CC Flats CC-0502N-0133
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 36 Woven Felt CC Runway Rare Flats CC-0322N-0082
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Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 36 CC Ballerina Canvas Linen Flats CC-0717N-0004
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 37 Double Stacked Mother of Pearl Flats CC-0208N-0010
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 38 Tweed Canvas CC Cap Toe Flats CC-0712N-0007
By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 38 Lambskin Leather Double Stacked CC Flats CC-0505N-0156
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Chanel Espadrille 35 Stitch Canvas CC Cap Toe Flats CC-0426N-0121
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Chanel Espadrille 37 Double Stacked Mother of Pearl Flats CC-0208N-0010
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Located in Downey, CA
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By Chanel
Located in Downey, CA
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Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 37 Tweed Canvas Cap-Toe CC Flats CC-0426N-0119
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Located in Downey, CA
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Chanel Espadrille 37 Tweed Leather Cap Toe CC Flats CC-S0224p-0009 From the 2018 Cruise Collection
Chanel Espadrille 36 Raw Linen Canvas Cap-Toe Flats CC-0510N-0171
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Chanel Espadrille 36 Embroidered Leather Cap Toe CC Flats CC-0707N-0006
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Chanel Espadrilles 37 Lambskin Ballerina CC Camellia Studded Flats CC-0225N-0050
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Chanel Espadrille 35 Suede and Faux Leather Pearl CC Flats CC-0322N-0079
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In the years following the opening of her modest millinery shop, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel became a pivotal designer of both fashionable casual wear and Paris haute couture as well as an icon and arbiter of 20th-century style with her bob haircut and pearls. Today vintage Chanel handbags, jackets and evening dresses are among the most sought-after clothing and accessories for fashion lovers all over the world.
The first Chanel shop was established in 1910 in Paris on rue Cambon by the young milliner Gabrielle Chanel (1883–1971), who had picked up the nickname “Coco” while working as a club singer. The boutique drew the attention of the Parisian fashion elite who popularized her wide-brimmed Chanel Modes hats. Soon she added a sportswear store in the Normandy resort town of Deauville, where Coco set the tone for her defining sense of style — traditionally masculine garments reimagined for feminine shapes, made from simple jersey fabric.
Effortless and elegant, Chanel's designs promoted comfort and grace in women’s wear that had been dominated in the previous century by complicated layers of fabric and cumbersome corsets. She followed this success with a couture house, opened in 1915 in Biarritz.
But Chanel was not born into a life of glamour. Following the death of her mother, her father left her in an orphanage where she lived until the age of 18. It was there that she learned to sew as well as appreciate the classic pairing of black and white as worn by the nuns.
In 1926, Chanel introduced her first little black dress, reclaiming a color that had once been reserved for mourning and working-class women. That same decade, she debuted her perfume, Chanel No. 5, as well as the Chanel suit with a fitted skirt, inspired by the boxy lines of men’s clothing and employing a sporty tweed.
Chanel closed her fashion operations during World War II, then returned to the industry in 1954 to design for the functional needs of modern women.
Structure and wearability endured in all of Chanel’s clothing and accessories, like the quilted leather 2.55 handbag — a 1955 update of a 1920s-era design — with its gold-chain shoulder strap that freed up a woman’s hands. The 1957 two-tone slingback pumps had a practical heel height while offering a bold statement in the black tip of the shoes. Her collarless jacket reacted against the constricting styles of Christian Dior's New Look, replacing them with a design that was timeless, an instant classic.
After Coco Chanel died in 1971, the brand underwent several changes in leadership, including fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who took over as artistic director in 1983. His collections for Chanel displayed his knack for synthesizing old and new, high and low. Lagerfeld revived Chanel ballet flats and thoroughly embraced the classic logo's interlocking CCs, which took the form of a clasp featured on so many of the rare Chanel bags that are much sought after today.
Vintage Karl Lagerfeld designs for Chanel dresses, coats and other clothing of the 1980s, '90s and 2000s riffed on its iconography, accenting a lexicon of Chanel-isms with tastes of the moment. And as the 1990s have become associated with styles adopted by today’s supermodels and influencers, vintage Chanel bags of the 1990s are among the most prized of the brand’s offerings.
Over the years, the company has continued to innovate, such as expanding into ready-to-wear fashion in 1978 and, in 2002, establishing a subsidiary company — Paraffection — dedicated to preserving the heritage skills of fashion artisan workshops. The House of Chanel still operates its flagship on rue Cambon in Paris, where it all began.
Browse vintage Chanel bags, evening dresses, shoes, jewelry and other clothing and accessories on 1stDibs.
Whether they’re Hermès sandals, black Jimmy Choo boots, ivory-leather-and-pink-daisy heels by sublime shoemaker Manolo Blahnik or Christian Louboutin platform pumps, you can find your next pair of legendary luxury vintage and designer shoes today on 1stDibs.
Shoes offered by the likes of Versace, Chanel, Charles Jourdan or Prada are integral to completing your carefully orchestrated street-style or evening ensemble these days, but footwear wasn’t always the big deal it is for your average Adidas enthusiast.
The decorative floor-length gowns that upper-class women of the 18th century wore meant that their shoes, then likely featuring high curved heels finished with woven or embroidered silks — a sharp contrast to the heavy, rudimentary form of the era’s footwear for men — were partially or entirely obscured by the base of their ornate dresses. What good is fashion if it’s tucked away?
Our modern age’s legions of sneakerheads might have trouble tracking down a pair of black-and-gold vintage Jordans but can at least fill their dream closets with original Adidas Gazelles or 1980s New Balances if they put the time in, while 1990s-era Prada pumps or a good pair of mid-20th-century jewel-tone heels in satin or silk haven’t lost their allure with today’s nostalgic fashionistas.
A pair of shoes can commemorate an achievement, mark an important trip overseas and is sometimes a rich manifestation of a hard-won physical feat. On 1stDibs, find Chanel flats or two-tone heels, Christian Dior pumps, vintage Margiela Tabi boots and many more designer shoes today.
From handbags and heels to jackets and jewels, Sharon Coplan Hurowitz has a deep admiration for (and collection of) all things Chanel.
The classic tweed garment has been a wardrobe staple of chic women around the world since the 1950s.