Posts Tagged ‘ coco chanel ’

Gabrielle Chanel’s early life difficulties inspired Chanel to live a life not quite within constraints of popular mainstream.  This philosophy was also Chanel’s (nicknamed Coco when she worked as a singer), design philosophy. At a time when women were confined in long skirts, heavy dresses, padding, petticoats and corsets, Chanel’s designs removed such restraints, shortened skirts...
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 CHANEL Style Philosophy:  Respect for the individual should dominate design.  The clothes must be more important on the woman, than on the designer’s drawing boards. Chanel’s clothing was movable, wearable, and alluring. Chanel tweed suit, in pink and back, with a tweed bag, a tweed Breton worn back on the head.  How to achieve...
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