Don't glow like Coco, says skin-cancer ad

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You may associate her more with the "little black dress." But it turns out that Coco Chanel also invented the suntan. So we’re told, anyhow, in a stylish ad for the Skin Cancer Foundation, created pro bono by Partners + Jeary of New York. As its text explains, Chanel fell asleep during “a long boat ride with some English Duke” and woke up tanned, inspiring generations of women and men since to get their own tans.

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