Fashion designer Coco Chanel
Fashion designer Coco Chanel. Born on August 19, 1883, in Saumur, France. With her trademark suits and little black dresses, Coco Chanel created timeless designs that are still popular today. She herself became a much revered style icon known for her simple yet sophisticated outfits paired with great accessories, such as several
strands of pearls. As Chanel once said,“luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”
Her early years, however, were anything but glamorous. After her mother?s death, Chanel was put in an orphanage by her father who worked as a peddler. She was raised by nuns who taught her how to sew—a skill that would lead to her life?s work. Her nickname came from another occupation entirely. During her brief career as a singer, Chanel performed in clubs in Vichy and Moulins where she was called “Coco.” Some say that the name comes from one of the songs she used to sing, and Chanel herself said that it was a “shortened version of cocotte, the French word for ?kept woman,” according to an article in The Atlantic.
FASHION PIONEER
Around the age of 20, Chanel became involved with Etienne Balsan who offered to help her start a millinery business in Paris. She soon left him for one of his even wealthier friends, Arthur “Boy” Capel. Both men were instrumental in Chanel?s first fashion venture.
Opening her first shop on Paris?s Rue Cambon in 1910, Chanel started out selling hats. She later added stores in Deauville and Biarritz and began making clothes. Her first taste of clothing success came from a dress she fashioned out of an old jersey on a chilly day. In response to the many people who asked about where she got the dress, she offered to make one for them. “My fortune is built on that old jersey that I?d put on because it was cold in Deauville,” she once told author Paul Morand.
In the 1920s, Chanel took her thriving business to new heights. She launched her first perfume, Chanel No. 5, which was the first to feature a designer?s name.
Perfume “is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion. . . . that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure,” Chanel once explained.
In 1925, she introduced the now legendary Chanel suit with collarless jacket and well-fitted skirt. Her designs were revolutionary for the time—borrowing elements of men?s wear and emphasizing comfort over the constraints of then-popular fashions. She helped women say good-bye to the days of corsets and other confining garments. Another 1920s revolutionary design was Chanel?s little black dress. She took a color once associated with mourning and showed just how chic it could be for eveningwear.
In addition to fashion, Chanel was a popular figure in the Paris literary and artistic worlds. She designed costumes for the Ballets Russes and for Jean Cocteau?s play Orphée, and counted Cocteau and artist Pablo
LOVELIEF AND SCANDAL
Another important romance for Chanel began in the 1920s. She met the wealthy duke of Westminster aboard his yacht around 1923, and the two started a decades-long relationship. In response to his marriage proposal, she reportedly said “There have been several Duchesses of Westminster—but there is only one Chanel!”
The international economic depression of the 1930s had a negative impact on her company, but it was the outbreak of World War II that led Chanel to close her business. She fired her workers and shut down her shops. During the German occupation of France, Chanel got involved with a German military officer, Hans Gunther von Dincklage. She got special permission to stay in her apartment at the Hotel Ritz. After the war ended, Chanel was interrogated by her relationship with von Dincklage, but she was not charged as a collaborator. Some have wondered whether friend Winston Churchill worked behind the scenes on Chanel?s behalf.
While not officially charged, Chanel suffered in the court of public opinion. Some still viewed her relationship with a Nazi officer as a betrayal of her country. Chanel left Paris, spending some years in Switzerland in a sort of exile. She also lived at her country house in Roquebrune for a time.
At the age of 70, Chanel made a triumphant return to the fashion world. She first received scathing reviews from critics, but her feminine and easy-fitting designs soon won over shoppers around the world.
LEGACY
In 1969, Chanel?s fascinating life story became the basis for the Broadway
musical Coco starring Katharine Hepburn as the legendary designer. Alan Jay Lerner wrote the book and lyrics for the show?s song while Andre Prévin composed the
music. Cecil Beaton handled the set and costume design for the production. The show received seven Tony Award nominations, and Beaton won for Best Costume Design and René Auberjonois for Best Featured Actor.
Coco Chanel died on January 10, 1971, at her apartment in the Hotel Ritz. She never married, having once said “I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.” Hundreds crowded together at the Church of the Madeleine to bid farewell to the fashion icon. In tribute, many of the mourners wore Chanel suits.
A little more than a decade after her death, designer Karl Lagerfeldtook the reins at her company to continue the Chanel legacy. Today her namesake company continues to thrive and is believed to generate hundreds of millions in sales each year.
In addition to the longevity of her designs, Chanel?s life story continues to captivate people?s attention. There have been several biographies of the fashion revolutionary, including Chanel and Her World (2005) written by her friend Edmonde Charles-Roux. In the recent television biopic, Coco Chanel (2008), Shirley MacLaine starred as the famous designer around the time of her 1954 career resurrection. The actress told WWD that she had long been interested in playing Chanel.
第二篇：传奇女人coco chanel经典语录
传奇女人coco chanel经典语录【一个不喷香水的女人是没有未来的】
【穿不上街的时尚，就不是时尚】 2010-04-24 15:20 | (分类:经济类)
1.“我特别厌恶那些夸张的装饰品，女孩子们东挂西戴，活脱脱像棵圣诞树。”
2.“我崇拜美，但是讨厌所有仅仅只是漂亮的东西。”
3“在NO.5之前，香水只有几种香味，女人身上的味道闻起来不是玫瑰花、丁香花，就是薰衣草。这多么恐怖啊，典型的男权主义！他们想把女人变成活生生的、会走动的大花盆。”
4“20岁的面容是与生俱来的，30岁的面容是生活塑造的，40岁的面容是我们自己要负责的。”
5“黑色能够包容一切颜色，白色也是。穿白色和黑色的女人，永远是 舞会上最受瞩目的美女。”
6“人们为什么要为钻石发昏呢？干脆在脖子上绑一张同值的支票不是更好。“（香奈儿开创了人造珠宝的新时代）
7“香水的特性必须鲜明，要让人第一时间就闻到，如果过了3天才被隐隐约约察觉到，那就不是香水了。”
8“我的上帝从来不是牧师的上帝。”
9“我一直严以律己，又有什么理由要宽以待人呢？”
10“每次我看到幸福如何阻碍了人的前途时，就庆幸自己曾经经历过深沉的不幸。人要先坚强无比，才能抵抗外来的一切。世界上没有任何东西能让我与别人交换我的命运。”
11“男孩一旦长成男人，就不再在真爱上浪费时间了，要知道，他们的妈妈早就把真爱给他们的了。”
12“我可以想象天堂有多么无聊，因为在飞机上的我比在地上任何一个地方都无聊。”
13.追求自由，我可以不惜任何代价。
14、奢华的反面不是贫穷，而是庸俗。
15、一个不喷香水的女人是没有未来的。
16、一个女人应该是这2样：优雅而惊艳。
17、我之所以选钻石，是因为它们的致密——在最小的单位里体现最大的价值。
18、奢华必须舒适，否则并非奢华。
19、变的是我，而非时尚，时尚的是我。
20、我爱奢华。奢华并不依存于阔绰和华丽，而是显现在不粗俗之中。粗俗是我们语言中最丑陋的字眼。我身在这场竞争中，就是为了对抗它。
21、穿不上街的时尚，就不是时尚.
22、有些人很有钱，而有些人很富有，但只有懂得生活品味的富人才懂得享受人生。
有关美与时尚
我喜欢孤独，喜欢美，喜欢本能，我讨厌浮华。
我主张黑色，……因为黑色可以毁灭一切。
法国人总是没有整体的概念，而在英国的庭院里，构成“绿草带”之美的，恰恰是整体因素。一株秋海棠，一朵雏菊，一只云雀，孤立地看毫无特别之处；但是如果花丛有二十尺深，那么它便是一个极美的花的整体。
一切都取决于肩部，如果一条裙子的肩部不合身，那么它永远都不会合身。
身体的一切关节都在于背部，所有的动作都是始于背部。
不应该害怕褶皱：一个褶皱如果美的话便是美的。
不是所有女人都是维纳斯，因此我们无需任何掩饰，我们所遮掩的一切总会呈现得更为清晰。
所有能使脖子显得颀长的东西都会更美。
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Coco Chanel生平简介
可可〃夏奈尔（Coco Chanel 1883一1971）
原名布里埃尔〃邦思〃夏奈尔(Gabrielle Chanel) ，生于法国索米尔1883年8月19日，卒于法国巴黎19xx年6月10日。
19xx年，夏奈尔根据水手的喇叭裤，设计出女子宽松裤。两年后，又设计出休闲味道很浓的、肥大的海滨宽松裤。整个20世纪20年代，夏奈尔接二连三地构思出一个又一个流行式样：花呢裙配毛绒衫和珍珠项链；粗呢水手服和雨衣改成的时新服装；小黑衣套装镶边、贴袋的无领羊毛衫配一条齐膝短呢裙……她当时的创新还有黑色大蝴蝶结、运动夹克上镀金纽扣、后系带凉鞋、带链子的手提包和钱包。她对珠宝业也有较大的影响。
coco chanel女士
如果要问二十年代的时装女王是谁，那么答案只有一个Coco Chanel，她超越生命极限的设计和崇尚自由随意搭配的风格，把女性从笨拙的扭曲体型的束缚中解放出来，强调优雅简洁而容易穿着，成为现代女性衣着的革命先锋。 她曾说过:“要把妇女从头到脚摆脱矫饰”。她要“创造一个年轻的形象”夏奈尔的服装坦率、自由，裙子为齐膝短裙，上衣为宽松直线型外套，不再强调胸部和臀部的曲线。她的毛呢无腰四分之三长外套，去掉花哨的装饰，简朴得像男装一样。她反对过去的高级时装像“鸽子那样挺胸凸臀”。“烦躁、杂乱”，她壮涨造型县简洁、朴实、舒适自如，色彩单纯、素雅，她喜欢黑、白两色。夏奈尔改变了时装的概念，是服装艺术真正迈入20世纪。
这位意志坚强、有着超凡创造力和生命力的女人使CHANEL的名字及其两个双C字相紧扣的标志成为一种时尚和文化的象征，对于注重品质的人来说，它代表着风格和地位。在二十年代她率先将男性的针织毛衣演绎为女装；从水手裤取材，推出“sailor pants”和 “beach pyjamas”,鼓吹女性如男性般穿上长裤，开创了“男装女穿”的先河。而她对人造首饰与衣服搭配的重视，特别是成串成串的珍珠链，为她简洁的衣服设计添上华丽感，更开启了现代衣着的观念——怎样穿着一件衣服比衣服本身更重要，以及我们所说的“total look”。 19xx年6月10日,夏奈尔独自为即将到来的时装发布会工作到很晚很晚,凌晨时她服用安眠药,她睡了,却从此再也没有醒来.她穿着喜欢的套装,戴着项链,带着她的机智和俏皮,偃然长逝了,结束了她传奇的一生,终年八十八岁.她一个人悄悄地离去了,没有人停下来询问,没有人听到她是否呼救,她不喜欢孤独,却不得不孤独地度过了余生.她曾是那么的显赫,她的临终又是那么的平淡。