Coco Chanel

Gabriel Bonheur Chanel (Coco) was born en 1883. When her mother died Coco was only twelve years old. Her father abandons her and her siblings en the largest orfanato of the region, a convent en Aubazine. She started de trabajo en Moulins as a la tienda girl with a local milliner and the age of twenty-five , she met and started living with her first love, Ettiene Balsan. Coco lanzamientos de decoración simple paja and felt hats and created beautiful and unusual diseños, captivating the attention and admiration of the women that attended the horse carreras. Soon after they began to ask her to custom-diseño hats that would complement their tarde trajes. Entre 1912 and 1914 Coco opens a millinery store "Chanel Modes", en París y otro en Deauville, where she makes and sells hats, simple loose blouses and chemises. She has the financial musica de "Boy" Capel, her lover after Balsan, oms endorser her plans and encouraged her ideas. En 1916, Coco begins to make garments from jersey, a fabric previously used only for underwear. Chanel made and sold hats, simple loose blouses, y chemises. Her clothes were designed to be worn without corsets and were construido with more linings to make them lighter and less rígida. En 1918, Chanel producing the cardigans and twin set. She adapted men's sweaters and showed them worn over plain, escalera de faldas. En 1920, Chanel introduced wide-legged trousers for women, based on sailor's bell bottoms, which she called "yachting pantalones." She also popularizada the little black dress," during this time. Chanel wore her diseños which she adapted from tradicional ropa de hombre: con cinturón de raincoats, plain opened-cuello de las camisas, blazers, rebecas, trousers, and soft berets. Her collarless cardigan-jackets were braid-trimmed, acompañados with patch pockets, and worn with knee-length faldas de tweed. Her simple camisa de señora vestidos de had round escalera or bateau necklines, hung loosely to the mid or lower calf and were worn with cintura or hip-length belts. Her other innovación of this period included oversize flat black bows, se aplica a los botones on blazers, sling back and sandals handbags with se aplica a las cadenas. She introduced costume jewelry, incorporated and it in her mono traje de tweed look desgastado with rows of artificial pearlsor se aplica a las cadenas. During the 1930s she commissioned Fulco Di Verdura to design elaborate costume jewelry using fake and semi-precious stones en ostentatious settings. Coco, es decir, se pone en marcha una fabrica de perfumes de Chanel Nº 5 en the 1920s. Chanel's signature style culminated alrededor de 1923, en lo que de acuerdo al clima called the "garconne look," which the celebrated flat pecho, slender, wearing loose, comfortable clothes and sporting a corto, boyish descuento figure. En 1929, Coco opened a boutique en París, el salón to sell accessories, such as bolsas, cinturones, scarves and jewelry. She cerrado atrás en el salón de 1939, at the outbreak of World War II, En 1954, at the age of setenta y uno, she made her regreso, volver a abrir la her house after fifteen years, and introducción a collection which destacados the neat suits that had been her hallmark before the war. She continued her reign over couture from 1954 to 1971, when she died at the age of eighty-eight. Desde 1983, Karl Lagerfeld ha sido el director de diseño of the House of Chanel.