Tuesday, October 18, 2022

The story behind Chanel. "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." Coco Chanel.


Coco Chanel's life was full of many good and bad experiences, but in the end it all led to her legendary life. Looking back on Coco Chanel's humble beginnings, it would never have occurred to us that such a successful career blossomed in such depressing times. Twelve-year-old Coco Chanel was sent to an orphanage by her father, a peddler. Even in bad circumstances, Coco Chanel always saw something unique. Gabrielle Chanel learned to use a sewing machine when she was 18, and in the years that followed, she began making her own hats and clothes. Seven years in the orphanage did not limit her ability to create fashion. Living daily in the Romanesque monastery of Obazian, Coco Chanel found her own sense of simplicity and came to love its paradoxical yet compatible combination of black and white.

She is the symbol of French chic.

The creation of Chanel's first series was marked by the background of two world wars. She tried to liberate women. She wanted to let women move freely and gracefully. Coco Chanel insisted that plain black and white didn't mean stripping. She came across ornate religious dresses and Baroque ceremonial objects encrusted with dazzling gold and colored gems, and she began to use jewelry to embellish her designs. In response to the constraints of women's fashion at the time, she said: "This is not what modern women should look like," so she created shorter skirts to expose the ankles and freed up the waist by eliminating the corset.

The Legendary French Woman CHANEL COCO

"Either I die too, or I finish what we started together." Coco Chanel.

In 1918, Coco opened her own couture house. Boy Capel, who helped finance her first hat shop in Paris, admires her liberation from women's tights. Unfortunately, Boy Capel later died in a car accident. In spite of her grief, she knew she should not hold back. Her 1921 encounter with Ernest Beaux led to one of her most iconic masterpieces to date: Chanel No. 5 perfume. Coco was the first designer to put her name to a perfume. However, attacks started raining down on her head, and it was World War II. She had to close the studio. She decided that now was not the time to think about fashion, so she retreated to the safety of Switzerland. Even at the age of 70, Coco couldn't give up her passion for fashion. So she gathered her loyal team and reopened her haute couture house. On February 5, 1954, she held a fashion show in her studio to show the world her triumphant return. She sat quietly at the steps of her studio, watching the models walk in her designs. While the French press mocked her designs, Life, the most-read magazine in the United States, said, "At 71, Gabrielle Chanel brings more than a style, it's a revolution!"

"If I wanted to go to heaven and dress angels, I'd want to leave."

On Sunday, January 10, 1971, the world lost the genius of Coco Chanel. But Coco Chanel's spirit and legacy live on. To this day, many of the staples of women's wardrobes owe much to her ingenuity. By going from nothing to building an empire, Coco Chanel liberated not only herself from the darkness of her childhood, but also the women of her time

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