Coco Chanel

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 Chanel was a pioneering franc 's fashion designer. She is an inspired resource for many designers in the world. Coco Chanel was the best designer in…

Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was a Leo. The lion also in her designs throughout her collections. In fact, instead of the interlaced C’s that we know Chanel for, it is a surprise the Lion wasn’t the main stamp. We could see it in her vintage pieces like the quilted bag. When she was a child her father left her and orphan in the convent of Aubazine. She spent here six or seven years. Through her childhood and until she was 18, she learned how to sew which would make her a future designer. Much of Coco…

(Leiss, Kline, Jhally, Botterill 164). Red Riding Hood, Chanel No.5 fragrance advertising film from 1998, is in commodity culture genre. Chanel is French…

Lucero 1 Christine Lucero English 1A Mr. Gruber 2/14/16 Fashion Trends in the 1950s vs. Now There are always new things coming out in the fashion industries that causes fashion to change. Fashion has been a dramatic change over the years in history. The term “fashion” is referred to as “the latest trend.” There are people who like to keep up with the latest trends and styles, from clothes, to jewelry, to shoes, and even new hairstyles. The fashion game back then has dramatically changed…

Fashion knows no gender, no age, no boundaries and no limits. Maybe the best thing about fashion is how unconventional and rebellious it can be. While a fitted dress is one person’s cup of tea, an oversized tee shirt may be someone else’s. Georgia Wahl,15, is the epitome of Manhattan sophistication and class. Her fashion inspiration, comes from the hit TV show, Gossip Girl, that follows the life of young socialites living in the Upper East Side. Wahl adores the main characters’, Blair Waldorf’s…

The women's fashion in the 1950’s started getting more comfortable as they started to achieve their independence during World War II. Silhouette’s became straight and slim and as women were getting more jobs in the factories, they started wearing comforbatable clothes such as suits, shirtdresses and jeans. In the early 1950’s too, Christian Dior changed the fashion industry dramatically with her fashion line. Her new dresses went down to calf length and they were tight in which showed your…

After the second world war, women’s clothing took a different direction from the slim figured clothing of the 20s and 30s, and the dull colors of the 40s. Ready-to-wear garments became available, and standardized sizing was created. Women could access high-end clothing off the rack. Now that materials didn’t have to be rationed for the war, clothing became more detailed and brightly colored. Christian Dior’s “New Look” pioneered the cinched waist and round hip hourglass figure that accentuated…

The Top 5 Reasons Every Woman Needs A Little Black Dress In Her Wardrobe You may have heard the offhand comment that everyone needs an LBD in the wardrobe. Yes, it is true, the little black dress is a versatile item of clothing that can be worn for just about any occasion. What better way to dress yourself up than by slipping on your favourite, sleek dress. Better yet, it doesn’t need to be a formal affair for you to run the lint roller over it in preparation for its next wear. You can wear…

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…

correspondent to being an entrepreneur (Leech and Melicher 2012). Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel possessed these assets mentioned above; yet, there was something more to her. Chanel does not only inspire, she intimidates and that is why she is the unsurpassed, archival subject to be studied in greater depth. Chanel wasn’t born with Steve Jobs’ genius creativeness, neither was she born with Bill Gates’ wealth reservoir, yet she…