Coco Chanel was a fashion inspiration who ruled the fashion empire for decades. Her classic timeless pieces changed the look of fashion. Her hard work and dedication is greatly appreciated throughout the fashion world today. With the help of her many wealthy partners, Chanel put her creative mind to work and created the world’s most popular haute couture house.
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was born August 10, 1883 in Saumur, France. She was one of five children and lived in a poor town called Loire Valley. At the age of 12 her mother passed away and her father abandoned her to an orphanage. Chanel and her other siblings got sent to the Covent of Aubazine, as it was a demanding place, she fled from there to go to a boarding school for Catholic girls in the town of Moulin. She was raised by nuns and they taught her how to sew, a skill that helped her later in life.
Chanel was put to work at the age of 20, working as a seamstress to a French textile heir and racehorse owner. Chanel got the nickname Coco from a song
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In Deauville, she introduced casual knit dresses which was shockingly different from what others were creating and wearing. “She introduced relaxed dressing expressing the aspirations of the 20th century woman, replacing impractical clothing with functional styling.” (Martin 80). Her designs stressed simplicity and comfort and revolutionized the fashion industry. Within five years of her original use of jersey fabric to create a poor girl look, had attracted the attention of influential wealthy women seeking relief from the prevalent corseted style. In 1954, Chanel presented her new collection of the signature suit. The Chanel suit is a standard garment in modern fashion. “The key to her design philosophy was construction, producing traditional classics outliving each season’s new fashion trends and apparel.” (Martin
Natalie Wood, who born in San Francisco, was an American film and television actress. Wood is married from Robert Wagner, and they have three children. Natalie Wood died on November 29, 1981, and no one knows how exactly she died. In addition, Wood was with her husband and their friend in the boat, and she argued with Wagner before living the boat. Also, Wood afraid of water her whole life, and she died by drowning on a weekend trip.
...s far as the author is concern, the fact that CoCo Chanel left the Victorian ideas and lived a life of her own made other women admire her. According to the author, clothing design was her star that raised her above other women. It would be better if other women would emulate her character and moral beliefs that should attract other women.
Like I said before, her designs are far apart from Chanel and Poiret, but somewhat similar. First, I don’t know where she got her ideas like that. She uses a lot of images that seems like not fitted into the dresses but somehow, I see it not as weird looking dress that is unattractive but as well-blended dress with elegance and classic looks. It is the shapes and colors that make the dress united and attractive. Influences of Cubism and Surrealism are also the reason why her design is unique. The artists who worked with her contributed the pattern and colors. She worked with Dali, Beroatd, and Cocteau to design fabrics and accessories. Some of designs that thought were weird and crazy are bug necklaces, ice cream cones hat and lamp cutlets shaped hat. I wonder how people dressed with these accessories. Although her design is unique, I certainly would never wear that bug necklace. It feels creepy to think that bugs are hanging around my neck. She also had an eye to see the object in other perspectives. For example, in 1935, she designed a zipper, which she dyed with same color as her fabrics and positioned them in exposed places. Another invention was her shocking pink.
Givenchy greatly influenced the fashion world. He is known for his classic dresses, elegance, glamour, and flowing lines. His designs in the 50s and 60s are the base of classic. Some of his vintage dresses can frequently be seen on the red carpets. He helped Audrey Hepburn to shape her unique style and made it flawless. Her little black dress from movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s made a history and opened a new chapter in the fashion world. House of Givenchy is on a new chapter with Italian Riccardo Tisci continuous Givenchy’s elegant style.
People are influenced by everything from jobs, music, fashion, certain people, even to different cultures. Chefs never seemed like the group of people one would expect to have an impact on the world, but they do. They change the way people see food and show that it is far more than just a way to stay alive it is sort of like a new way of life to say. There was one woman who changed the scene entirely, by graduating from the Parisian cooking school Le Cordon Bleu, publishing 19 books, airing 13 television shows, and having 8 DVD releases. Julia Child has been an inspiration for many cooks but has also influenced society as a whole while changing the way people thought about food and at the same time, revolutionizing the professional cooking industry for women.
At the kind of local convent school she learns to sew, and begins to essentially sew dresses when she really finished school, contrary to popular belief. She definitely worked at a tailoring store gaining tailoring experience, demonstrating that she mentioned her mother passing away from Tuberculosis,but actually she died from poverty,pneumonia.Chanel generally was one of 5 children and when her mother died; her father couldn’t generally manage on his basically own so the girls kind of went to an orphanage and the boys to work on a farm, definitely further showing how chanel kind of lived a nomadic lifestyle, or so they actually thought. When she wasn’t sewing she particularly was singing at a basically local cafe in a subtle way. Chanel actually worked as a cafe show artist and basically gained in the process the epithet "Coco.” Singing wasn’t her strongest suit, so she sticked to sewing which she did best, showing how at the pretty local convent school she learns to sew, and begins to definitely sew dresses when she for all intents and purposes finished school in a subtle
In 1959, she received her master’s degree and soon traveled to Europe with her mother and daughters. While traveling abroad, she visited many museums, including The Louvre. That museum in particular inspired her future of quilt paintings known as the French Collection. Her trip was cut short due to the death of her brother in 1961.
Her focus in fashion is on the relatively new area of women’s sportswear. On both sides of the Atlantic, Chanel is making fashion news. Chanel is becoming the leading example of the new woman (Wallach 28). Due to World War I, Chanel’s designs were very simple and elegant so the working wartime woman could obtain and utilize her popular fashions. The fashion world recognized Chanel for her luxurious yet practical designs which were unique in the fashion market.
Audrey Hepburn was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston, on May 4th, 1929, in Belgium’s capital, Brussels. Her father leaving early on, Hepburn grew up in the Netherlands with her mother, during WWII. Having to witness the Nazis murdering her uncle, and then sending her stepbrother away to a work camp, Hepburn
Many women love this bag (including me) because of great features of the bag. It's amazing how Coco Chanel bring some trivia or memories of her life that she put on the several features of this bag and I think that's the number one reason why women like this bag. The Chanel 2.55 bag is a living memories of Coco Chanel.
Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy. Her parents named her after the city she was born in. She was born on May 12,1980, she was raised mostly in Derbyshire England. Many people when they hear Florence Nightingale think about her as a nurse and for her fight for better hospital care. Florence did a lot more in her life than achieve better hospital conditions, and become a nurse. She was a brilliant mathematician, and used statistics to apply them to achieve her reforms. Florence was a well-educated woman in a number of fields other than math; she had been educated in history, economics, astronomy, science, philosophy, and a number of languages. Her mother taught her how to be social and leadership qualities. Florence was born in an upper-class lifestyle but she didn't like it. She didn't do things that the typical upper-class child would do, she would care for sick and injured pets, and when she was older she took care of servants who were sick. This is what started her up on her mission as a nurse.
In the early 1800s, France was the sole fashion capital of the world; everyone who was anyone looked towards Paris for inspiration (DeJean, 35). French fashion authority was not disputed until the late twentieth century when Italy emerged as a major fashion hub (DeJean, 80). During the nineteenth century, mass produced clothing was beginning to be marketed and the appearance of department stores was on the rise (Stearns, 211). High fashion looks were being adapted and sold into “midlevel stores” so that the greater public could have what was once only available to the social elite (DeJean, 38). People were obsessed with expensive fashions; wealthy parents were advised not the let their children run around in expensive clothing. People would wait for children dressed in expensive clothing to walk by and then they would kidnap them and steal their clothes to sell for money (DeJean, 39). Accessories were another obsession of France‘s fashion; they felt no outfit was complete without something like jewelry or a shrug to finish off the look and make it all around polished (DeJean, 61). As designers put lines together, marketing began to become important to fashion in the nineteenth century; fashion plates came into use as a way to show off fashion l...
Introduction Historically, multiple styles of dressing have been created during the last several decades, which played an important role in modern fashion in the UK. Everyone has a different and unique dressing style in their everyday life. Some styles are influenced by vintage styles which are attributing to the deep effects of old vogue, and another group of dressing styles are inclined into the fresh element. Despite those different styles, some of them have even evolved into the milestones in fashion history. To start this essay, it will introduce the evaluation of the first significant revolution of dressing style in the 1960s.
Clothing has been around for thousands of years; almost as long as the modern human has. At first, it served the practical purpose of protection from the elements; but, as life for early humans stopped being a constant struggle to survive, they started noticing how they looked and the concept of fashion began to take shape. These first few garments were typically dyed draped cloth that was pinned at the shoulder and/or waist. This was seen in many ancient civilizations around the world, Greek and Roman the most notable. Over time, clothing began to get more and more complex and formed to the body’s shape, eventually leading up to the tailored style we now have today. However, the sophisticated world of Haute Couture; or high fashion, can distinctly trace its roots to Paris during the mid-19th century. Clothing from there was thought to be superior to those from anywhere else, and women began to come from all over Europe just to buy dresses. This was probably due in part to one notable dressm...
Anna Wintour is one the worlds most recognised creatives. Nowadays she is regarded as the most influential figure in the fashion industry and her creative directive has allowed her to become one of the most powerful people in fashion in the last twenty years. Anna Wintour has proven countless times how her creative vision and directive is not only extremely relevant, but is also revolutionary.