my fashion designer Coco Chanel Coco Chanel (born in Saumur, 19 August 1883) was a famous French fashion designer, able with his work to revolutionize the concept of femininity and establish itself as a key figure in the fashion design and popular culture of the twentieth century.
convittrice At eighteen he was hired as the College Notre-Dame, Moulins, where he learned to sew. Gabrielle Chanel began his career on the stage of Moulins La Rotonde cafe as a singer, or rather as poseuse, an entertainer who sings during the breaks of the show. It was in this environment that was created as a mascot: "Coco" [1]. Find
therefore used in the country as a saleswoman in a fabric shop, Maison Grampayre. Twenty-five years experienced a very influential man, who will change her life, the heir to a dynasty of textile, Baron Étienne Balsan, and is linked romantically. He moved at the meeting, where Balsan bred horses, and soon became an Amazon tube. The ladies of the French, meanwhile, Balsan at home, constantly asking where he bought his lovely hats. "Coco," at this point realizes the possibility of transforming activities in requests to create couture milliner until then limited personal use.
moves so the first steps in the fashion as a designer of hats in 1908, revealing a special talent to predict and anticipate the desires and tastes of women of her time.
opens his first shop in Deauville in 1913, and a fashion salon in Biarritz in 1915, also starting some collaborations with the most established tailors in Paris in those years. Gabrielle's fame is growing rapidly, thanks to his style that emphasizes a dynamic woman and free of labels, and culminates with the opening of a shop at 31 Rue Cambon in Paris.
In 1921 he launched the perfume market. Convinced that traditional perfumes with flowers and moss had no future, commissioned a synthetic fragrance chemist Ernest Beaux (aldehydes, fermented sugar). The chemical he prepared and submitted a whole series examining the designer. The bottles were numbered from 1 to 5 and 20 to 24. Coco chose two and the end was only 5. She did not even changed the name: one shock at a time when fragrances were very imaginative and fanciful names. But it was a shock even more the box: a rectangular parallelepiped crystal clear. "Chanel No. 5" became the best-selling perfume in the world. Coco
created other fragrances as Cuir de Russie, Gardenia and the No. 22. Its line of accessories, including shoes, jewelry, handbags, scarves and belts, was completed in 1929. Of particular importance are the jewelry, but rather showy, put on clothes to contrast the pure and minimalist. His studio in the Rue de Cambon 31 had become a "must" for all the ladies of the town.
But in the second half of the thirties the first serious problems occur. The international economic crisis had reduced its earnings and uncertain times, dark presage the outbreak of World War II. In 1936 Gabrielle suffers the indignity of being locked out of his studio by the workers on strike.
Daughter of walking, a thimble in his destiny
Thimble
Chanel was the daughter of a traveling salesman of textiles and a seamstress who sewed in their modest home. It was certainly the mother who learned the art of sewing, how to remember - with the requisite pathos film - the original sequences of the television film of Italo-French production Coco Chanel, in which the image is presented again several times in the first floor of a thimble, essential tool for tailoring.
But Chanel is also known, if not more, for his flair and his extravagance, and for the courage that always inspired his choices. It was, among other things, the first woman to wear a suit unisex, ie a white silk pajamas (this was in 1918, when it was thirty years). She was also - remember the biographers - to launch the fashion of tanning (and the idea was probably in the long hours spent in the sun to Deauville). He was brilliant insights, such as two-tone shoes, designed to ensure that the vertical stripes streamline your legs under an optical effect.
An urban legend has it that, among her lovers, there was also the composer Igor Stravinsky from their relationship, he was the inspiration for the final version of The Rite of Spring, for her famous Chanel No. 5.
"If you were born without wings," he would say, "do nothing to prevent them from growing." For her statement that: "Fashion fades but style remains," she whispered on his deathbed to his servant: "You see, that you die," it must have seemed the most natural thing.
also plagued by trends advertised in the press - showing a preference for the eccentric look to his eternal rival, Elsa Schiaparelli - Chanel closed her fashion house in 1939, laying off all its employees and taking refuge in Vichy, in 1947 .- powerless to help - the triumph of the New Look sponsored by Christian Dior.
When it was informed that the sales of her perfume came down drastically (despite claims that Marilyn Monroe confessed to "go to bed dressed only two drops of Chanel No. 5") Gabrielle - now seventy years old - decided to get back into the game, on 5 February 1954, at 31 Rue Cambon, a new collection clearly marked by the style of the twenties.
Printing demolished it, defining his creations a resounding fiasco: in fact, the reporters did not understand the fashion to have seen the future, mistaking him for the past. The sixties would continue to draw in different ways, but the twenties, in 1954, only Gabrielle Coco Chanel, it could be fully aware. However, even with the support of the American press, the designer went back on the crest of the wave in just two seasons, creating what is his timeless masterpiece, the "suit".
Gabrielle dies at age 88, a Sunday, in his suite at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris.
style and philosophy
Chanel Gabrielle Chanel's style is revolutionary for twenty years: it creates not only new clothes and new brands, but a whole new lifestyle. Very showy hats drew first, and only after many years began to create some clothes. Later he also devoted himself to the giant bags, perfumes (like the famous Chanel No. 5), two-tone shoes to propel the legs, the unisex watches and jewelry. Interpreting in practice the spirit of the modernist era, Gabrielle seeks a new image of woman, liberated and independent from men: a free woman and revolutionary, modern and avant-garde.
Coco Chanel was able to give voice to the need for effective reform of the social role and lifestyle of women of her time. Women that while husbands and fathers were at the front had to work, independence and had enjoyed previously unknown. Women who had also started playing sports, and demanded that practicality and functionality in clothing without sacrificing quality, however, required by a seductive female toilet. The fabrics are preferred by the designer tweed and jersey, which carved the suit will become a must. Favorite colors white and black, which was added to the dark blue, beige and gray.
The body awareness, comfort and masculinity, femininity mixed with appropriately, are the principles which he drew to seduce women (and men) with his creations. His style is known to history as synonymous with elegance, refinement combined with the comfort and modernity. One thing that is important to remember is that Coco was one of the first women to wear pants
purse: chanel style 2.5 - Oviesse
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