Coco Chanel

Since I am so inspired by Coco Chanel and her fashion line, I thought it would be appropriate to share some of her history. Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was born on August 19, 1883 in Saumur, France. In 1909, she established a hat workshop in the House of Etienne Balsan. In 1910, she opened her first shop in Paris, three years after that she opened a boutique in Deauville. Through the years comes out with many clothing items and in 1924, Coco Chanel shows her first costume jewelry collection; founds perfume company under the management of the Wertheimer brothers. In 1926, she creates the little black dress. The years that follow, she had succeeded in numerous things too such as hand bags, shoulder bags, “Unisex” style, and perfumes such as: Chanel No.5, Chanel No. 19, Cristalle, Coco, Egoiste, Pour Monsieur, and Allure.



Almost all women’s wear today, no matter what kind it is, is practically the result of Chanel’s ideas, experiments, and “clean outs.” She discarded everything which she considered superfluous in order to show the actual substance of a garment that modern women could wear. Chanel was her own best mannequin-she was very slender, and wore her hair very short. She closed her business in 1939, however in 1954, at the age of seventy, she made a comeback. Unfortunately, on January 10th, 1971, she died in Paris. Other designers took over her business, but regardless Coco Chanel has made a shocking impact on fashion that still carries through today.