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Chanel has become one of the most well known names in luxury and haute couture fashion industry. Coco Chanel revolutionized haute couture when during the 20’s and 30’s she replaced the traditional corsets with comfortable and simple suits and long dresses. Her designs were cut to emphasize women’s figure instead of distort them. A signature of Chanel is the Chanel suit, which consists of a knee-lenght skirt and a boxy jacket made in woven wool and gold buttons worn with large pearl necklaces. We can still see this look in the Chanel collections of today. Chanel is often associated with elegance and high class. What Chanel is known for to this very day is the originality and simple perfection and Coco Chanel’s concept of uncomplicated classics is still being re-inforced into their designs.
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French
Biograhpy
Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel was born in 1883 in the small city of Saumur, Maine-et-Loire in France. Her family was very poor and she had a though childhood. She spent seven years in the orphanage of a Roman Catholic monastery where she learnt the art of sewing. When she left the orphanage she started working at a tailoring shop. After meeting the french millionaire Etienne Balsan who brought her into the rich life of pearls and dresses she started designing hats. Her interest for this grew and soon she had opened her first shop where she sold different types of clothing. Her business grew and evolved into a fashion empire with a wide selection of designs. Coco Chanel always kept her designs comfortable, simple and revealing. This was like a new evolution for women in that era to be able to show off their bodies instead of hiding them under layers of padding, corsets and underclothes. Her design didn’t change much through the generations. In 1921 Chanel came out with her signature fragrance, Chanel No. 5. Coco Chanel had a few affairs but she never settled down and didn’t have any children. She died at the age of 87, in 1954.
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