Post by Ryaira Hester on Sept 21, 2013 12:43:12 GMT -5
Gabrielle Boneheur Chanel (Coco Chanel) is on of the most well known designers in the country and has left her mark in the fashion industry. I fell in love with her products from perfume to her famous high heel shoes. She has inspired me to be different and to never give up on your dreams. Below, you will find the Early Life of Coco Chanel, The upcoming of Coco, and the Start of Something New.
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Gabrielle Chanel was born in a workhouse of Loire Valley were unmaried mother worked. When she was just six , her mother died and the young chanel was sent to the Orphanage of the Catholic monastery of Aubazine were she learned the trade of seamtress. She spent time with relatives in the capital of Moulins where Gabrielle learned how to sew better than the nuns at the orphanage. Later Chanel would claimed her father sailed to America while she stayed with her 2 evils aunts, and also that her mothered died when she was 6 insteas of 12.
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The start of World War I led Coco to move to a small town called Deauvile. Here she met a young man by the name of Etienne Balsan and became his mistress. As they began living together Balsan bought her the most finest thinga like diamonds, dresses and pearls. While living with him Coco began creating hats , which turned into a commercial venture. She then met a man by the name of Arthur Edward 'Boy' Capel' who was a wealthy English Industrialist and a friend of Balsan.
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As her relationship with Capel strength , Capel installed Coco into a Parisian apartment and financed her first shops. Through the sources and connetions these men made for Chanel she was then able to open up her own millenery shop in Paris. As her boutiques were forming in both Deauville and Biarritz the most devastating event occured when Capel was killed in a car accident . 25 years after the accident she told a friend her life would never be the same and in losing Capel she lost everything.
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During the 1920's Coco became the first fashion designer to create a loose women's jersey, usually used for men's underwear and creating a relaxed style for women ignoring the stiff corseted look of the time. The soon became very popular with clients and for a post-war generation and restricted clothing seemed old-fashioned and impractical. In 1922 she launched a fragrance Chanel No. 5 which remains popular to this day. Pierre Wertheimer became her business partner and owns 70% of her fragrance business. She also launched her famous cardigan jacket and her little black dress.
During World War II chanel became a nurse, although her popularity diminished greatly with the affair of a Nazi officer she moved to Switzerland to escape the controversary. She then ended this self-imposed excile by moving to Paris and taking over the Christian Dior's overtly feminine New Look. She then began creating the introduction of pea jackets and bell-bottoms for women. During her life Coco created costumes for plays and cinematic works. Coco worked until her death in 1971 at the age of 88 living her last years of life in her private apartment in The Ritz. Karl Lagerfeld has been the cheif designer of Chanel's fashion house since 1982 and has continuously mine the Chanel archive for inspiration. Coco chanel's death was not the end of the career of fashion design, it was just the beginining of something new.
