Very well had to do Coco Chanel so that after passing 46 years without her he is still remembered, don't you think? For those of you who still do not know her life thoroughly, Coco Chanel was a French dressmaker who radically changed the world of sewing for the female body. Until she appeared, the woman was dressed elegantly but superficially, stiff. Coco freed the woman's body, making her dress also elegant but with much more comfort and informality than was imposed until her time.
To sum it up, Coco Chanel was and will always be one of the great feminist icons that gave women, at least on her ground, in the field of fashion, the place she deserved. He freed her from unnecessary adornments, from suffocating corsets and expressed in her clothes the freedom and equality that the female gender desired at that time.
The image of the liberated woman
His influence was not only copied by women around the world but little by little it increased its power and also marked ground in the world of perfume, hairdressing and even accessories ... But how did it all start?
First years
His childhood was not easyBorn into a very humble family, she was given to a nun's orphanage when her mother passed away. He was 12 years old at the time. There, at the orphanage, she learned to sew for 6 years, becoming a "dramatic" teenager who repudiated her past and lived in a dream world. She was an independent, rebellious girl, so she left the orphanage and took a job as a clerk in a haberdashery, while in her spare time she sang songs for French army officers such as such as ko ko ri ko y Qui qu'a vu Coco? Hence they began to call her the petite Coco, name by which we would all know her.
How did you become Coco Chanel?
She opened her first store with the money her first boyfriend gave her, Etienne Balsan, a wealthy bourgeois, after having cheated on him with his best friend Arthur Boy Capel, a polo player. He bought a dozen hats in galleries, reformed them to his style and then put them up for sale… That's how it all began!
Little by little, the Coco Chanel fashion was spreading, she created his own designs, selling many to those who were lovers of their first love, and each new success led him to want to design and expand more and more ...
The fashions it promoted
- Mixed men's fashion with women's… Giving women more decision-making power, more freedom and comfort when walking.
- He pushed the cut through 'garçon'. Until then women wore long hair, it was the greatest sign of femininity and elegance. Coco promoted the masculine haircut among women, thus proving that it could also be feminine.
- Promoted the use of costume jewelery. At that time only wealthy women could wear jewelry. These were expensive and were not accessible to any pocket. She promoted the use of costume jewelery, cheap jewelry accessible to almost any woman without having to need the money of any man to wear it.
- Boosted tan. If in those years your skin was tanned, it was a symbol of a country person and a worker. The bourgeois wore their white skin as a symbol of nobility and distinction. She broke up with that too. She likes to tan in the sun on the beaches of the Côte d'Azur.
- I was a sexual revolutionary. In the intimate field, Coco openly defended her position of being able to love anyone, regardless of sex or social class. She had countless lovers, both women and men, and she bragged about it too. He was not ashamed.
- She was the first known businesswoman in history. Coco Chanel pioneered by opening her own business in a world dominated by men. In 1910 he broke with all this.
- It was the one that put the color black as a symbol of eleganceBefore her, the black color was only for people of the high aristocracy, later it happened to be used only as a symbol of mourning and sadness. She incorporated it into all kinds of garments, especially those more elegant that were designed for large events and occasions.
Coco Chanel Quotes
- «The bravest act is to think for yourself. Aloud".
- "Don't waste time bumping into a wall, hoping to turn it into a door."
- "It triumphs with what you learn".
- Keep your head, heels, and principles high.
- "Elegance is not about putting on a new dress."
- "Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."
- "A woman without perfume is a woman without a future."
- "A fashion that does not reach the streets is not fashion."
- “There is nothing as comfortable as a caterpillar and nothing as adorable as a butterfly. We need dresses that drag and dresses that fly. Fashion is both a caterpillar and a butterfly. Butterfly at night; caterpillar in the morning.
- "Fashion is architecture, a question of proportions."
Coco Chanel would be 133 years old today ... Long ago she left us, her presence, because what is her essence continues to beat even today ...