About Gabriel Coco Chanel and the biography of the Empress Fashion.
A woman named Jeanne Devol, who lived in a small mountain village in France called Saumur, on August 19, 1883, gave birth to a girl whom her parents called Gabrielle. The girl's father was a handsome commander named Albert Chanel. Of course, because of his service, he was in constant traveling and could not take full participation in the life of his family. Most likely, this was the reason that the mother gave her sons (the brothers of the future fashion empress) to her relatives, and she herself sent Gabrielle and her two sisters to an orphanage. When the girl was eleven years old, her mother died. His father had no choice but to give his daughter to the monastic school, and then to the orphanage. By the way, it was in the monastic school that Chanel was included in the list of lagging pupils. But this did not prevent the girl from finding a profession of a seamstress, which after the end of the boarding school helped her to earn a living. After a while, thanks to her craft Gabrielle got a job as a seamstress in a women's dress store, which was in the town of Moulin. It was in this store that a young girl had a huge army of male fans who could not admire her beauty. The girl was often invited to visit, and the most common place at that time was considered to be the only canteen called "Rotonda" for the whole city. It is in this cafe that the girl tries herself in the musical field. And the impetus for this was the constant "podnachki" her boyfriends, saying her place on the stage ... Sang a pretty seamstress absolutely free. But despite this, the plus of such performances was the fact that the girl, being a singer, was able to make a name for herself, namely: the repertoire of the girl consisted only of just two songs - Ko Ko Ryo Ko and Kew Koko. After a while, the audience literally "tightly" "nicked" the singer's nickname "Coco". Just this nickname and mentions any biography of the very Mademoiselle Chanel - a woman who for a long time entered the world history.
Gabriel Chanel: the first steps in the fashion world.
The business card in the fashion empire for Koko was a small workshop that sewed women's hats. The room for this workshop for the girl was provided by her then-gentleman named Etienne Balsan. By the way, Balsan himself very much criticized all the ideas of Gabriel and many of them did not share. But his friend, Arthur Kapel, shared the initiative of the girl absolutely in everything and was ready to support all her zeal and beginnings. Thanks to Arthur Capel, in 1910 Coco Chanel was able to open her first boutique in Paris, which was called the famous salon in Rio Cambon, 31. It was then that Coco made a real revolution in the fashion world. She promoted simplicity and elegance to replace choking corsets, multi-layered skirts, tunnels and ruffles. But in a few years, in the wardrobe of every fashionista, an honorable place was occupied by an outfit from Koko - an elegant skirt suit, where the skirt was slightly below the knee, the blouse of the shirt model, a flirty hat in the form of a hat, a sailor with a deep neckline or trousers. A little later, Gabrielle betrayed a new status of a former uniform, which was worn by shop assistants in Paris department stores, namely a small black dress. Now this dress has become a symbol of elegance and elegance, as well as, in combination, a true symbol of all the fashion of the 20th century. Plus, this same status has received a cult perfume from the empress of fashion. It was at the request of most Coco, a famous for that time perfumer named Ernest Bo was able to make as many as twenty compositions from absolutely different flavors. And this is all despite the fact that in those days to mix different smells was considered a very bad form. Coco Chanel of these samples chose the fifth, then added a scent of lavender flowers, came up with a simple bottle with a white label with the inscription Chanel No. 5 on it. Despite the simple design of the bottle in this fragrance, the whole world could fall in love, starting with the first breath.
In addition to all Coco Chanel attached her hand to the hairdresser's art. Although, as biography Chanel says, she cut a haircut called La Garzon quite unintentionally into the world fashion. And all due to the fact that she allegedly had a gas column explosion in her house, because of which Gabrielle sang her hair to herself. And, worst of all, she had to urgently go to the premiere at the Grand Opera. Without getting upset, Koko cut off her scorched hair, then weaved flowers into them and calmly went to the place indicated above. But the next day in the streets of Paris there was a complete sensation, and all the fashionable women cut their hair this way.
The personal life of the empress.
Biography Chanel includes novels with the most famous and rich men of that time, as well as a connection with a German officer, whom she could not forgive for a long time Parisians. What Coco Chanel herself said: "When a woman aged as I fall in love with a man who is fifteen years younger than her, she does not have to ask him at all about his nationality ...". It was because of this relationship that she had to live for seven years as a hermit in Switzerland. But at the age of seventy, the fashion world met the triumphant return of Mademoiselle Elegance.
The end of life's path.
Gabriel Coco Chanel died on January 11 in 1971, in the hotel room Ritz, which was across the street from the world famous Chanel Fashion House. The peak that Gabrielle Chanel managed to conquer in the fashion world in her whole life remains unbeatable, and the empire she created will long live her true empress!