COCO CHANEL

French fashion designer. Created a silhouette of a woman of the XX century. Came up with the famous perfume "Chanel number 5. " Was patron.

Only one of Chanel's fashion designers have managed to create not a fashion, but its unique style. It is a revolution in the guise of a woman of the XX century. Taking off her corset, freeing the body, she emancipated soul and mind. He reveals in his own person free, independent woman, Chanel gave the weaker sex a sense of self-worth, beauty, freedom and independence. She always swam against the current, live, lead, sought to triumph against, destroying tradition, blazing new trails. This Grand Mademoiselle has become a true innovator, a genius of fashion.

Orphanhood and poverty were to Chanel's first "university" in her life, but from their ancestors, farmers, mountain people from the South of France, she inherited the steadfastness and perseverance in the challenges, trust in the best and striving for perfection. She had a great gift of self-taught, as grandmother's home, where he gave a little Coco's father after the death of her mother, barely able to make ends meet so that there is little thought about the aesthetic categories of beauty. But soon, this cozy corner of the girl had to leave and move to a shelter at a monastery.

The rest of his life Chanel tried to forget about the grievous childhood, composing legend, inventing imaginary aunts in the house where she had allegedly grown.

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She struggled with the past, so humiliating existence, when in despair, cried the girls: "I'm not an orphan!" Even then, a wretched table, she vowed to overcome their own poverty and deprivation.

Fifteen-year-Coco at the Moulin meets a wealthy officer Balsanom and without hesitation, leaving him in Paris. Chanel Lover accommodated in the castle, where she was for many years is destined to play the role of pathetic Kept: a rich landlord is not too much is rewarded them with a girl. The castle on the Rights of the hostess reigns of "legitimate" mistress Balsana - famous at that time in Paris courtesan Emilenn d'Alanson. Proud, defiant Chanel must endure ridicule and contempt happy opponent, but she knows: she had nowhere to go, she looks painfully out, looking for at least some worthy cause. Balsan but not in a hurry to help a funny girlfriend, and which can make this restless tramp.

However, Chanel, hardened in the daily struggle for existence, is not going to surrender. She finds a second lover - Englishman Boy Capel. This time fate smiled at her. Chanel was able to awaken jealousy Balsana, and in this competition, she won their means, to open fashionable hat shop.

Its trade hats very quickly began to flourish. From Boy Capel is gaining fame in the world, there are own money, finally, the Parisian actress look to Chanel, wanting to buy an extravagant hat.

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However, for the irrepressible Coco this business is too narrow, its active nature requires tremendous achievements. Chanel was already beginning to understand that women's costume is associated with self-awareness of its possessor, that clothing has its own logic to meet the needs of time. Her first famous dress was sewn from jersey material, which has never been used by women to Chanel. Destroying the established canons, Coco created a style in which the smallest paradox has been associated with the functionality, in which luxury finishes conceded the primacy of line, elegance cut ennobled inexpensive materials, making the elegance and sophistication available to suit most women. Parisians rushed resolutely along the path indicated by Chanel.

Her star is rising in the First World War. "I helped the war. Cataclysms When a person behaves. In 1919, I woke up famous. "

As a person comes to a brilliant insight? It is virtually impossible to trace. Coco herself recalled: "I once wore a sweater, just because I was cold . . . tied his handkerchief (the waist). On that day I was with the British. None of them noticed that on my sweater . . ". Once nephew Coco came from a British college for the holidays in a dark blue blazer. Chanel felt the material. Eureka! It remains only to cut out and sew.

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Shape, taste - it was all in itself. Its a great idea was to transform the British men's fashion in women. And this she has to make with their hats, and with such taste, which avoids the slightest hint of ambiguity. They shape and transform everything it touches. Jackets, shirts and ties, cuff links - all of it borrowed from men, because she turned into ultrazhenskoe.

Dresses kokotok beginning of the century, did not allow girls to work, transforming them, living people in expensive gadgets, which played a rich Balsany. After removing from them their toilets, Chanel provoked the extinction of the social type, though, for righteousness' sake, we must say that Coco, perhaps simply because of his intuition guessed inquiries of modern times. She was a great "philosopher of fashion. "

Chanel never drew their models, it creates them using scissors and pins directly on models. This kudesnitse "was enough pairs of scissors and a few precise movements of the hands to the pile of formless matter arose itself a luxury. " With very few exceptions, she did not like their models. "The models are similar to the clock - Coco said. - The clock shows the time. Mannequin should show the dress, which it put on. They are beautiful, and therefore may engage in this trade, but if they were smart, you have not done them.

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" Chanel did not understand how a woman may well be unwise to control the wealth, bestowed her nature. Happiness is not to go hand in hand with a wealthy man, it is not associated with a minute of hot passions of ecstasy, it is - in money and independence, the ability to help others, in the gift of communion with the art.

As well formed Koko - a small orphan who escaped from an orphanage? As a lover Balsana became empress of taste, fashion setter? Due to its richness and sociable character Chanel fall within the scope of art and artistic bohemia of Paris. It becomes a good genius of Russian ballet, not only disinterested dressing performers, but also constantly helping the troupe means. Once at the hotel where she lived girlfriend Chanel - Misia Sert - rushed terrified Diaghilev. Misia for him was "the only woman that he could love," and now he's on her knees asked the council. Diaghilev fled from London, broke staging of "Sleeping Beauty", could not pay debts, going crazy, not knowing what to do. Flustered, he had not noticed sitting in the back of the room Chanel. When Misia came, attracted by a telephone call, then promptly got to meet Coco flailing Diaghilev. "Come to me. Do not say anything Mise. Come as soon as leave here. I'll wait for you. "

Chanel Diaghilev presented a check for the required amount, and from that time the Hotel Ritz, where Coco lived, was for Russian dancers, cashier assistance.

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Once Chanel got some money, she wanted to pay for all and for all. But not because he had once paid for it, and then to forget what to pay for it. Say, Diaghilev was afraid Chanel - he has never met a person who gives money and asks for nothing in return. And when he was going to benefactress with his protégé, then surely conjured them to be modest, clean and well dressed.

For decades, the daughter of Fair Trader Coco Chanel was surrounded by the artistic elite of Paris. Cocteau and Picasso, Diaghilev and Stravinsky, Bakst and Lifar, Reverdy and Jouvet became her friends. She was the mistress of Grand Prince Dmitry Romanov, the most expensive but its a man's heart became the Duke of Westminster. He belonged to the British royal family and was one of the richest people in the UK. "My real life began when I met with Westminster. Finally I found the shoulder, which could rely on wood, which could lean on. " Westminster Coco behaved like a little girl, timid and obedient. She followed him everywhere. There are many stories where the prince falls in love with a prostitute or a shepherdess, but in this case was not about to raise the woman to herself. This was probably the first union of a free woman of modern times and one of the last of the Mohicans origin. Duke of Westminster wanted to marry a Chanel, but this marriage never took place.

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The story goes that one day she told her lover: "Why should I marry you, after Coco Chanel's unique in the world, while there are already three Duchess of Westminster. " (Duke was divorced and had two daughters. ) In this phrase, the whole nature of Chanel, she chose independence and the loneliness she did not want to leave the House of Chanel.

World famous Coco brought her famous perfume "Chanel ¹ 5" They have become, like everything he touched creative gift Coco, a milestone in the history of perfumery. Abandoning the traditional, easily recognizable floral scents - gardenia, jasmine or rose - she created a structure, which includes 80 ingredients. He carried a freshness of a garden, but it was impossible to solve the odor or a single flower. This elusiveness fascinating charm of her perfume. During the war near its stores stood unchanging part of the first German soldiers and officers, and then an American. Everyone wanted to teach his wife or girlfriend unusual perfume bottle of the famous Chanel of Paris.

She was the first, creating jewelry, precious stones mixed with false, forcing both of them sparkle in the rays of light to play with them, just as it has done with his life, interfering with the real and imaginary. Chanel believed that the true jewels a woman can not buy herself, she should give them.

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These stones need to wear for fun only at home, as well as privately enjoying good music or a book. And the people should wear fake jewelry.

The creator of a unique style, Coco had never complained of plagiarism. On the contrary, she felt pleasure when you copied. Among her clients was billionaire and the actress, the president's wife, but his main victory Coco believed that the style of her came out on the streets. She has created an enormous fortune, but died alone, painfully suffering from the fact that she no one to pass accumulated. Until the end of his days, she worked on new collections, but one day she escaped: "I do not know whether I was happy . . . "

Happiness, of course, everyone knows its own way, and everyone wants to find something he was not given. But whatever it was talking about his life Koko, the truth remains that after more than twenty years, Chanel's style remains unshakable, and her name continues to be a symbol of elegance and good taste.