1. «Coco Chanel» was half ... the true name of this amazing high fashion designer.
Her real name was «Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel». Born on August 19, 1883 and died on January 10, 1971.
2. The Chanel grew up in a French orphanage.Her memories from there are characteristic and it is easy to understand this from the simplistic and rigid dress of nuns and the whole environment influenced subsequent projects. The difficulties in the young girl's life inspired her to pursue a radically different way of life, first in the theater where he acquired the nickname «Coco» and then as creator of millinery.
3. As for the nickname «Coco», this came after a performance of 1905.
4. In 1909 she opened her first store in Paris, with women's hats. Later she will establish a namesake fashion house, which eventoday defines "what is chic, has style and will be worn tomorrow."
| The fragrance Chanel No5 |
6. Because she wasn't wealthy enough she couldn't afford the fashionable clothes of the period, she rejected them and made her own, using the female ensemble sports jackets and ties, which only men wore in their daily lives.
7. Associated with the modern movement, including Diaghilev, Picasso, Stravinsky and Cocteau. Like these artists, so she was determined to break the old codes and find a way to express herself.
8. The Cocteau once said about her that "it was like a miracle that she worked in the fashion world with rules that have value only for painters, poets and musicians."
| Coco Chanel clothes |
10. Her apartment and her clothes were following her favorite color palette, shades of beige, black and white. Objects from the collection of art and theatrical interests confer the proper inspiration for the themes of her collections.
| Coco Chanel with Etienne Balsan |
12.Coco Chanel never married or had children. According to some rumors, Coco could not have children, which happened due to abortion which she had made when she was young.
13. As for her relationships, it seems, over time, that Chanel had major weakness in men who belonged to a superior social class: a Russian Duke, an English Duke, the aristocrat-playboy - "protector" of Etienne Balsan, a Arthur Edward 'Boy' Capel (a member of British high society and close friend-rival Balsan for slender silhouette of Coco), the famous composer Igor Stravinsky, and later a senior officer of Nazi Germany. The last adventure was the reason that the exiled in Switzerland.
14. During the period 1924-1928 she worked for Sergei Diaghilev (founder and director of the «Ballet Russes»), as a costume designer, in collaboration with Pablo Picasso.
15. Since the first attempts made by Coco fabric to give form to the design vision, a large part of Chanel clothing was made of jersey, a selection of unusual fabric.
| Little black dress |
17. Το 1939, μετά από την πτώση του Παρισιού, η Chanel έκλεισε τις μπουτίκ της και πέρασε τα επόμενα δεκαπέντε έτη της ζωής της στην Ελβετία, όπου και εξορίστηκε λόγω της σχέσης της με έναν ναζιστή.
18. In 1954, after she returned, sheclimbed back on top of haute couture. Chanel decided to improve her plans from the 1930's. The casual clothing, including the suit Chanel, once again draws the attention of women. Made them put in their wardrobe waisted jackets and trousers bell.
19. She spent much of 1950 and early 1960 working for various studios of Hollywood, dressing stars like Audrey Hepburn and Anne Baxter. During this time her plans were extremely popular, especially in the United States.
20. Instead of working in haute couture, also designed costumes for theater, as Cocteau's Antigone (1923) and «Oedipus Rex» (1937), as well as film costumes, including the «La Regle de Jeu» of Renoir.
21. In 1969 Katharine Hepburn starred in the Broadway, the musical «Coco», which was based on the life of Coco Chanel. Coco said officially that Hepburn, was rather pointless to pose as choice, as it was "very aged" to embody the stage of Broadway.
22. Coco died alone in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1971. Before her death, a suit or an evening dress would cost at least $ 12,000.
