Coco Chanel...?

Question

Anyone know anything about Coco Chanel?

Answer 1

all i know was that she was never married at all but she had several men

Answer 2

"The Fashion Empire of Chanel brought in over $160 million a year at her death. The genius behind this empire was Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel or her designer name, Coco Chanel. Moving from one home to another in her childhood, she desired a husband and a family. Chanel never married and never had children. Chanel's fashion creations revolutionized and set the standard for the fashion industry. She forever changed the way women looked and the way women looked at themselves.

At the age of twelve, Coco Chanel's mother had died and her father had left. Her two aunts raised her until the age of seventeen; Chanel was brought to live with the nuns in the Aubazine orphanage. There she developed feelings of loneliness and mental anguish. These themes would be with her throughout her adult life. The young Chanel desired nothing more in life than marriage and the love of a husband. Perhaps it was the lack of a "classic" familial system that caused these unfulfilled dreams.

Chanel would never marry nor would she have children. According to some rumors, Chanel was unable to have children because of a botched abortion attempt in her youth. This would be one of the many examples of the rumors that plagued Chanel. Chanel had many relationships with men in her lifetime. Chanel had a love for men in high places. She dated a Russian Duke, an English Duke, an aristroct named Etienne Balsan, and a Nazi officer. Her love affair with the Nazi officer would get her exiled to Switzerland. In 1971, at the age of eighty-seven, while staying in her private quarters at the Ritz-Hotel, Coco Chanel died.

Coco Chanel did not always dream of becoming a famous fashion designer. She danced, attempted to be an actress, sold hosiery, rode horses, dispensed mineral water, and worked as a cabaret singer. Coco Chanel opened her first millinery store in 1909 in Paris. With Chanel's obsessive dedication and Etienne Balsan, a playboy who would finance her, the store would become a success. This says quite a lot about Chanel that she was able to turn a small boutique that employed two teenage girls into one of the most profitable fashion houses of all time.

She won enough acclaim to set up a second shop in Paris. The luxurious clothes, fabrics, and jewelry impacted her second collection and she located the second shop in an area that was easily accessible to very wealthy people. Staples of modern day fashion, which she introduced to the world; the bobbed hair style, pants for women, "little black dresses", the elimination of the corset from women's fashion, haute couture skiing accessories, the unisex style of dressing, sunbathing, the use of knit jersey, the women's bathing suit, and sports fashion. She also became a Hollywood fashion designer. Attendance was down in theaters, so in an effort to attract women theatergoers, studios asked Chanel to design costumes that would appeal to women. Probably the single element that most ensured Chanel's being remembered was not a piece of clothing but a perfume named after her, Chanel No. 5. It was first launched in its art deco bottle in 1923. It was the first perfume to bear a designer's name.

Despite all her successes and with the Italian designer, Schiaparelli, moving in on the fashion front, Chanel chose to retire in 1938. For the next 15 years, she moved back in forth between Vichy and Switzerland. In 1954, Chanel decided to make a comeback. Depending on the source, Chanel's return to the fashion world was attributed to the falling perfume sales. Her fashion empire at her death brought in over $160 million dollars a year. The German Karl Lagerfeld has assumed the artistic directorship of the House of Chanel since 1954. Certainly it can be said that Chanel did an incredible amount for the development of fashion. By maintaining her incredible business sense, and her uniqueness, Chanel helped create what modern fashion is considered today.

Coco Chanel was an entrepreneur who was determined to break old formulas and invent new ways of expressing herself. By her death in1971, the French couturier had long since established herself as the twentieth century's single most important arbiter of fashion."

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Answer 4

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Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (August 19, 1883 – January 10, 1971)[1] was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her arguably the most important figure in the history of 20th-century fashion. Her influence on haute couture was such that she was the only person in the field to be named on TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century.[2]


[edit] Life
Chanel herself presented many versions of her childhood. However, it seems certain that she was born the second illegitimate daughter of traveling salesman Albert Chanel and his companion Jeanne Devolle in the small city of Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. Her parents married in 1883. She had five siblings: two sisters, Julie (born 1882,died 1913) and Antoinette (born 1887) and three brothers, Alphonse (born 1885), Lucien (born 1889) and Augustin (born 1891), who died after a few months. In 1895, when she was 12 years old, her mother died; her father abandoned the family a short time later. The young Chanel spent seven years in the orphanage of the Catholic monastery of Aubazine, where she learned the trade of a seamstress.

After affairs with generous wealthy men – a military officer and later an English industrialist – she opened her first shop in 1910 at the 21 rue Cambon, then opened a boutique in Deauville in 1913 and a Couture House in 1915. Then she moved to the 31 rue Cambon in 1918.

In 1921, Chanel No. 5 perfume was introduced by Chanel. The perfume was the first to be sold worldwide, and the straight lines of its bottle stood out from the other flamboyant perfume bottles of the time. The No. 5 in Chanel No. 5, is said to be Coco's lucky number, however it was actually chosen because it was the fifth sample.[citation needed] Pierre Wertheimer became her partner in the perfume business in 1924. Wertheimer owned 70% of the company, while Chanel received 10% and her friend Bader 20%. Chanel No. 5 became a thorn in Coco's side, as she received very little income from its success. The Wertheimers continue to control the perfume company today. In the late 1950s, Marilyn Monroe revealed that Chanel No. 5 was her favourite perfume.[citation needed] A bottle of Chanel No. 5 is sold every 30 seconds.[citation needed]

The influential Chanel suit, launched in 1923, was an elegant suit comprising a knee-length skirt and trim, boxy jacket, traditionally made of woven wool with black trim and gold buttons and worn with large costume-pearl necklaces. Coco Chanel also popularized the little black dress, whose blank-slate versatility allowed it to be worn for day and evening, depending on how it was accessorized. Although unassuming black dresses existed before Chanel, the ones she designed were considered the haute couture standard.[citation needed] In 1923, she told Harper's Bazaar that "simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."

The origin of the nickname Coco is uncertain. Many sources indicate that it was acquired at La Rotonde, a cafe frequented by members of a French cavalry regiment and many of the artists who flocked to Paris' Montparnasse section at the turn of the 20th century. It was there that Chanel, then a cabaret singer, performed a song called "Qui qu'a vu Coco," and the name stuck.[citation needed] Other sources state that her audiences cried "Coco" when they wanted an encore[citation needed], while further sources state that the song was called "Ko Ko Ri Ko," French for "Cock-a-doodle-do."[citation needed]

Chanel was set up in business by a paramour, Étienne Balsan, a French textile heir, and her romantic affairs with the artist Paul Iribe, the Duke of Westminster, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia, and British sportsman Boy Capel all had a considerable influence on the stylistic evolution of her often male-inspired fashions.[citation needed]

She never married. For more than 30 years, Gabrielle Chanel made the Hôtel Ritz in Paris her home, even during the Nazi occupation of Paris. During that time she was criticized for having an intimate affair with Hans Gunther von Dincklage, a German officer who arranged for her to remain in the hotel. She also maintained an apartment above her Rue Cambon Couture House and owned Villa La Pausa in the town of Roquebrune on the French Riviera. However, she spent her later years in Lausanne, Switzerland where she is buried. Her tombstone is carved with five stone lion heads.

In 1969, Chanel has been portrayed on the Broadway stage by Katharine Hepburn in a musical by Andre Previn and Alan Jay Lerner, and on screen by the French actress Marie-France Pisier. A new play based on her life, entitled 'Creme de Coco,' is also debuting in April, 2007, and will be directed by Phil McKinley (director of the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, The Boy From Oz).

The House of Chanel in Paris, under Karl Lagerfeld, remains one of the top design houses today.

Answer 5

She was French and invented the little Black Dress.