More darkly, Chanel began pulling strings to claw back the rights to her perfumes from the Jewish Wertheimer brothers, who had fled to the US when the Germans invaded. She hoped to use the Nazi's "aryanisation" laws to take back control of the perfumes that she signed away to the Wertheimers in 1924.
According to the late Chanel fashion director, Karl Lagerfeld, Coco Chanel made two mistakes in her lifetime: denim and mini skirts. She hated both and refused to have any in her collections.
The House of Chanel originated in 1909, when Gabrielle Chanel opened a millinery shop at 160 Boulevard Malesherbes, the ground floor of the Parisian flat of the socialite and textile businessman Étienne Balsan, of whom she was the mistress.
Just as she had following World War I, Chanel set out to rescue and reinvigorate women's fashion. The designer faced challenges in this endeavor: securing finances, assembling a new staff, seeking out new fabrics, competing at age seventy against a new generation of designers.
Albert Chanel was an itinerant street vendor who peddled work clothes and undergarments, living a nomadic life, traveling to and from market towns.
Coco Before Chanel (French: Coco avant Chanel) is a 2009 biographical drama film directed and co-written by Anne Fontaine. The film stars Audrey Tautou and details the early life of French fashion designer Coco Chanel. The film premiered in Paris on 6 April 2009 and was released in France and Belgium on 22 April 2009.
His grandsons, brothers Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, control Chanel and are worth about $96 billion.
She was no fan of miniskirts.
Chanel had once called miniskirts “an exhibition of meat,” claiming she found the look to be indecent. She instead was a proponent of women wearing pants and was even arrested for wearing them by the Vichy Regime during World War II.
Chanel closed her couture house in 1939 with the outbreak of World War II. Her associations with a German diplomat during the Nazi occupation tainted her reputation, and she did not return to fashion until 1954.
The black colour of the logo represents the elegance and sophistication that Chanel stands for. The simplicity if the logo adds luxury and also adds to Chanel's philosophy of “less is more”. Since it was designed in 1925 it has never changed and has remained the timeless design that you can see today.
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The Chanel logo was designed by Coco Chanel in 1925. It's composed of two bold interlaced “C”s that mirror each other. The simple, strong shapes of the letters evoke the authoritative elegance of simplicity based on Coco's philosophy of “less is more.”
When she died at the age of 88 in 1971, her passing threw the house of Chanel into a crisis. The solution came in 1983 with the appointment of Karl Lagerfeld as creative director. He brought stability and unity, and much like his predecessor, is famous for refusing to dwell on the past.
and when he proposed, she said, there are many duchesses, but there is only one Coco Chanel. she actually refused to dress royalty. because she felt that it wasn't. right for her to be giving people stuff for free, because in her own words, nobody helped me.
Chanel was taught sewing at the convent of Aubazine and her first job was as a seamstress. Chanel created her own clothes and hats and wore them to social events. Demand increased for her hats and so in 1910, she opened her first store in Paris selling hats.
During World War II, Chanel lived in the Ritz Hotel in Paris in occupied France, where she entered into a romantic relationship with a high-ranking German intelligence officer. Subsequently, Chanel herself became an intelligence operative for the Nazis.
Coco Chanel became very rich and famous during her life, but her childhood was a humble one. She was the daughter of a peasant and a street vendor and was born in a poorhouse.
Orphanage upbringing
At the age of 11, Coco suddenly found herself 'orphaned' – even though her father was still alive. She was brought up by nuns of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Mary.
And yet, at the turn of the 20th century there was one Parisian fashion designer whose clothes didn't just encourage elegance, but individuality and liberation for women too. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel revolutionised the way women wore clothes and in doing so challenged women to live by their own rules.
She helped women say goodbye to the days of corsets and other uncomfortable garments. Chanel wanted women to be elegant while allowing them to move freely. Her favourite color was black. Coco was one of the pioneers of women's pants, if not for her, women might still have been wearing skirts and dresses only.
“I gave women a sense of freedom” Coco Chanel articulated. She decided that women should be able to enjoy the same freedom men had. To her, trousers are symbols of liberty. She considered all those binding corsets and skirts were suppressing women physically.
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Karl Lagerfeld's cat Choupette was left $1.5million by the late designer, who passed away in 2019 at the age of 85, but it's not clear-cut how exactly the feline will get her paws on the massive inheritance.
Baptiste Giabiconi and Sebastien may fancy themselves the 'favourite' and 'spiritual son' of Lagerfeld, but as far as fashion is concerned, Virginie Viard is his only one true heir. Viard was his right-hand woman at Chanel when the designer was alive, and has been the fashion house's creative director since his death.