Coco

In 1939, Coco Chanel would suddenly decide to fire all 2,500 of her employees and closed up her businesses entirely. A clear explanation was never provided, but it could be a reaction to the start of the war or it could have been revenge for the strike that occurred three years prior. Either way, Chanel chose to hide away from the fashion world with only money coming through a percentage of perfume sales that she owned. During this time, there is a lot of speculation about what kind of role Chanel played during WWI and whether or not she was actually an agent for the Nazis. For the next fourteen years, Chanel did not create, design, or release any new clothes. Late into the war, Chanel slowly came back into the business, initially to fight…

I. Introduction: "Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happing" (Coco Chanel). When I think who is a magnificent creator in the world. I think of someone who stands up for what his or her believing it. Someone who reflects her or his dream to her or his society. Someone who has a unique echo until today. Someone who has significant changing in the world. Someone likes Coco Chanel. Coco…

Coco Chanel was a woman of great intelligence whose influence revolutionized the way women wore clothes and made a huge impact on the fashion industry world. Her quote: “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud” contains a huge life lesson that I agree with. Coco Chanel was trying to say that you shouldn’t be scared to speak your mind and you should question the standards society has put out for you. This quote reminds me of a time when I, like Coco Chanel, stood up for what…

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel is my favorite a fashion icon. Coco was a French orphan who opened her first millinery shop in 1910. By the end of her life, she was a fashion mogul. Chanel was known for her ingenuity, perseverance, and moxie as a business professional and with the French elite. Coco lived in an era when women’s fashions included lace, feathers, bustles, and crinolines. Gabrielle, on the other hand, created her own eccentric style. She wore jodhpurs, men’s collars, pigtails and bowler…

Before Gabrielle Chanel had become the Coco Chanel, she went through difficulties in her life. As a young girl, she and her sister were abandoned by her father after her mother passed away, leaving her an orphan in 1893 (Lifetime TV, 2015). She learned how to sew in Aubazine orphanage to become a seamstress but she was more interested in becoming a famous singer, starting off in clubs called Moulins in 1908 (Coco Before Chanel, 2009). She was known as the girl singing the ‘Coco’ song which gave…

"Transforming women's fashion as we know it", one of the many things said about Coco Chanel. The biography Coco Chanel by Lisa Chaney, shows the diverse life of a fashion icon. Early life for her was full of hardships, but she learned to disguise it in order to make it seem like she had a good life. She created legendary pieces like the little black dress, also known as the LBD. She was named one of the top 100 most influential people in the 20th century. Through the challenges of her childhood…

Revolutionist. Liberator. Brilliant. Simple. Elegant, Bold, Classic, Chanel. Coco Chanel is the epitome of a classic and bold woman whose unruly nature helped her built an empire that has stood the test of time and will last for generations to come. She created masterpieces that were state of the art and simply incredible. She rose from her humble beginnings as a victim to poverty and turned out to be a victor. A victor of success and liberty. Even today, people remember the women behind the…

owned by the Sisters of Providence. While the father peddled clothes for a living, that is where Chanel began to familiarize herself with clothes. When Chanel’s mother died, her father abandoned her and left her to obtain an education at an orphanage which influenced her to pursue the fashion industry. Coco Chanel’s early education with religion, the time and period she was living in and overcoming poverty with the ability to express herself have been central to her goals and actions; she…

Famous fashion designer and business woman, Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel, is known for her unique style that is very sophisticated yet simplistic. Although Chanel is known for living the luxurious life, her childhood tells a whole other story. “Chanel was born on August 19, 1883, in Saumur, France.” At the age of 12 her mother died and her apathetic father put her and her sister up for adoption. “She was raised by nuns who taught her how to sew- a skill that would lead to her life's work.”…

Introduction “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” Iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel once said. Chanel, one of the most influential designers in the world, redefined what it meant to be a woman. Women’s fashion before the 1900’s was all corsets and bustles and almost no freedom to move. Then Coco Chanel changed that. She designed new fashions that defied the social norm and gave women in Europe and America more freedoms. But with her new idea came conflicts. Young girls were…