Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel (1883-1971)

Gabrielle "Coco" Bonheur Chanel was a French designer and founder of the Chanel brand. She was born on August 19, 1883 in Saumur , France. She was the first lady in France who introduced many creative styles, modernist touch and unique menswear stuff and she was considered as the most important woman in her time. Her nick name came from another occupation entirely. During he 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. When she was young he mother died and her  father couldn`t take care about her , then he sent her to orphan house. She learned how to sew there. 

Fashion Pioneer 

She stared her business with Etienna Balsan. she opened her first shop in Paris in 1910, started selling hats. 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, In 1925, she introduced the now legendary Chanel suit with collarless jacket and well-fitted skirt. Another 1920s revolutionary design was Chanel’s little black dress. 

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

She is a woman who came from nothing, and built an empire. She cared about fashion  a lot, and she was very strong woman, she once said "Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor." She was a classic woman, she left her name in the history of the fashion world. Her designs we are using now, and it didn`t loose its value. She always to feel herself young, we can see it from her pictures, and she motivated herself, it is never late to be dressed well. She made her own fashion world, and i think there will be no other Chanel in the world.