Chanel was only 12 years old when her mother died from a combination of factors, including tuberculosis, poverty, pregnancy, and pneumonia, according to reports from The Telegraph UK. Like many of the greats, Coco Chanel started from the bottom as a seamstress by day , and a club singer by night in Moulins, a commune in France. Coco Chanel was born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel. She acquired the nickname 'Coco' during her brief stint as a cabaret singer.
Chanel opened her very first shop in The brick and mortar was located on Rue Cambon street in Paris, where the designer kickstarted her namesake brand selling hats.
The fashion icon introduced the now classic wardrobe staple early on in the s, and it proved to be as revolutionary as the times.
Chanel is also known for its two-piece suits. Coco Chanel grew up in a time when women were expected to wear confining pieces, but she had another vision. In , Chanel released the her first perfume with the help of perfumer Ernest Beaux. The name came from the fact that it was the fifth sample out of 10 created.
It is the most iconic perfume of all time, a must-have of female elegance. Its name derives from the fifth essence Ernest Beaux presented to Chanel, who chose it after testing almost Notice the simplicity of the name, Chanel n. Madame Coco was the first woman to think that a tan could be an element of beauty for a woman. Until then tanned women were farmers who worked in the fields under the sun. They acquired a healthy golden glow, but this was associated with poverty.
Paleness was a mark of nobility and economic well-being, so much so that ladies of the age could be seen strolling around cities with rather cumbersome parasols, veils and sundresses.
In Coco rehabilitated the tan. On her return from a holiday on the Ivory Coast, where she let herself be bronzed by the sun, she was admired for her colour and immediately copied.
Red lipstick. The growing feminist movement acclaimed it as a symbol of female power. It was a democratic accessory that made women equal, whatever their social class, economic position or profession, and Madame elevated it to the symbol of a true femme fatale. It had to be applied to highlight the outline of the lips, creating as perfect a heart shape as possible.
Costume jewellery. She invented it. She made jewellery as an accessory, made of metal and semi-precious stones, available to everyone, and it could be worn at any time of day. She gave importance to women, emancipating them and making them independent and avant-garde. She gave women a new way of dressing, of expressing themselves and, ultimately, of being. Essential pieces. Coco Chanel became a figure in all of this—Paris society—entirely through her wit and taste. She was irresistible.
The Cinderella story was now complete. The Duke of Westminster, reportedly the richest man in England, wanted to marry her during their six-year affair, but she refused.
An independent, self-made woman, Chanel was not just attracted to titles or wealth. Ultimately, she was always more at home with creative types. One romantic liaison, with artist and designer Paul Iribe, almost lead to marriage, but Iribe died of a heart attack during a tennis game with Chanel at her country home before definite plans were made. When Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn offered Chanel a very generous contract in , she decided to give it a try and arrived in Los Angeles in a luxurious, custom-decorated white train car.
Perhaps the right love affair would have kept her in California longer, but as things turned out, Chanel was merely bored there. It was in America, and partly in Hollywood, though, that Chanel ultimately capped off her legend. Dali suggested to splash it with real mayonnaise, but the designer stopped short of that. Chanel finally closed her shop when the Nazis invaded France in In a replay of her early reaction to the fashion of her youth, she unveiled her revamped Chanel classics in But this time around, the French and English press was flat to negative—they thought she would want to stun with new inventions.
She actually wanted to remind the world what it would lose if her styles were forgotten. It was the American press that embraced her return. New York society and Hollywood celebrities jumped on the bandwagon. Both agreed that retirement had bored them to death. One of the young men attending the show in Paris was Karl Lagerfeld, a year-old student at the Chambre Syndicale design school. One of the things that has been happening lately is that we have been revisiting scandals from the 's.
OJ, Lewinsky, Tonya Harding, Tea Leoni took a couple of years off after starring in the hit disaster movie, Deep Impact, to start a family with David Duchovny. You know Jordana Brewster from the Fast and Furious franchise. At the time of this profile from the Dec-Jan issue of Movieline For whatever reason, most major movie magazines didn't cover cinematic decapitations. But no topic was too gruesome for Movieline Michael Douglas was riding high when he appeared on the cover of Movieline magazine in late Professionally, he won critical acclaim Previously, the publication might cover a TV star from time to time.
But Duchovny and Anderson were at least attempting to transition to the big screen Read More. She died in , so you wouldn't be wrong to ask why Movieline magazine published a two-part biography about her in
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