Coco Chanel

Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (Saumur, 19 August 1883 - Paris, 10 January 1971) was an influential French fashion designer. She is seen as a pioneer in fashion.



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[hide] *Roaring Twenties 1  ==Roaring Twenties[ Edit] == During the turbulent 1920s Chanel was known as the ' Queen of fashion '. "Elegant are is not a question of attracting a new dress. You are elegant, because you're elegant. "In 1918 she got a building at 31 rue Cambon in Paris in hands. In 1921 she opened her first "fashion boutique" and sold here clothing, hats and accessories. In 1927 they owned five buildings on the Rue Cambon, namely number 23 to 31. She was the one who devised the Garçonne-style: they pulled women sweaters and pleated skirts with lowered waist and decorated the hair with clochehoeden and hair ties.
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Her great rival Paul Poiret, who for her art instructor, with brightly colored creations, called Chanels misérable de luxestyle. They in turn punished its exotic collections to come by with minimalist black evening dress, one of Chanel's most distinctive designs.

Chanel brought in May 1921 from her perfume Chanel No. 5, one of the most widely sold at the time the first artificial perfumes and perfume that women not to flowers did smell.Chanel commented: "a woman should smell like a woman and not as a rose." [source?]

Chanels view on fashion is also after her death passed through its fashion Empire, thanks to Chanel couturier Karl Lagerfeld. "Fashion is not something only exists from dresses, fashion is in the air." [source? ] Another was her pronunciation: "fashion is made to not in fashion to be". [source? ] Her style was different from the other big names in the fashion world.

Chanel died at the age of 87 in a suite at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris. ==In film[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In april 2009, a film that tells the life of Chanel before she became known as a fashion designer, Coco before Chanel. In it, she is played by Audrey Tautou. In the same year appeared also the film Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, Coco & Igor to the book by Chris Greenhalgh. This was the second overlaps partly with Coco before Chanel and goes partially up where that left off. Chanel is portrayed by Anna Mouglalis. ==Collaboration<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There were rumors that Coco Chanel during the German occupation of France would have had a relationship with Walter Schellenberg.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  Hall Vaughn defends in sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War (2011) the view that Chanel collaborated with the German occupiers and that they had a relationship with Hans Günther von Dinklage, which a German spy would have been for the Abwehr .<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]