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Hong Kong-based vintage Chanel collector and reseller Stephanie Tan is a forerunner of the vintage Chanel community in Asia.
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SINGAPORE – When it comes to dream bags, one name stands out for many little girls and grown women: Chanel. Mrs Stephanie Tan herself was never a luxury lover, until she clapped her eyes on a Chanel Diana.
More than a decade ago, she first saw the bag, with its iconic diamond quilt and soft curved flap, casually slung on the shoulder of the late Princess Diana of Wales in a photograph. The royal was spotted so often with the bag, which was unnamed when it made its debut in 1989, that it was later relaunched and named after her.
