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Coco Chanel Paragraph #1 Thesis statement Explaining the thesis by the elements Transition to Paragraph two Coco Chanel changed the fashion world by making women not wear the corsets also inventing the perfume Chanel No 5. The way how Chanel changed the world forever by making women no wear the corsets anymore was because when she was young life wasn't easy for her, so she couldn't offered all of the clothing, so she decided to make her own clothing line by saying one day “This is not how modern women should dress this is how men dress us”, so she has decided to change that by making clothes for women to be free and able breathe, and eat by making shirt with a collar neck and tie for women and boater hats. Now into paragraph two I'm going to be talking about Coco Chanel fragrance Chanel No 5 that in that time is was the first fragrance that someone puts their name on it, and how it has a very sophisticated smell that it has.

This biography, Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life, is a secondary source text written by Lisa Chaney. Published in New York in 2011, this work aims to examine Coco Chanel’s unconventional journey from poverty to glamour, along which she helped to redefine the idea of the modern European woman. This text is intended for an audience of educated individuals with an interest in Coco Chanel and her legacy. Throughout this biography, Chaney references private letters, personal records, and interviews with Chanel’s friends and family to explore the origins of Chanel’s revolutionary ideas that influenced the European feminist movement. This source is valuable because it provides an in-depth examination of Coco Chanel’s life through analysis of new primary source evidence. Additionally, because Chaney is reflecting on Chanel’s life and influence in hindsight, she is able to link Chanel’s work with the progression of European women’s rights throughout the twentieth century, establishing cause and effect relationships. However, this source is limited because Chaney does not take an objective perspective, and, instead, aims to prove her theory that Chanel was extremely

People often ask me, "When did you first become interested in Coco Chanel?" and if I'm honest, I was fascinated long before I started researching her biography more than a decade ago, all the way back to my earliest memories in childhood. For there on top of my mother's dressing table stood a bottle of Chanel No. 5, beyond my reach but not out of sight, and I knew from the moment I began to discern its mysterious letters and number that there was something magical to the black-and-white cipher. I'm not alone in that discovery -- Chanel has come to represent the essence of everywoman, whether in the scent of her perfume or her choice of bold red lipstick or the perfect little black dress -- but the story of Coco feels somehow entwined with

In Charles Rearick’s book, Paris Dreams, Paris Memories, he describes the various ways in which Paris is “represented” through various images he identifies as the City of Light, Old Paris, the Capital of Pleasures, and Paname. Rearick further writes how and why these images of Paris came of importance and how they shaped the geographical layout of the city we know today. All of these images together have likewise produced the city of Paris while also providing the framework of Parisian events and experiences.

Fashion designer Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel is known as Coco Chanel, born August, 1883, in Saumur, France is famous for her famous designs trademark suits and little black dresses. Chanel was raised in an orphanage and she was taught to sew by all the nuns at the orphanage. When she turned 18, she left the orphanage and she worked for a local tailor for a long time. Chanel was so hardworking and wanted to be a fashion designer and she learned everything by herself and she learned to sew in orphanage. She had a short career as a singer in cafe and concert halls that Gabriella given the nickname Coco, this name was giver by her local friends and soldiers who went to watch her.

Whilst both writers use personification in their work the way in which the technique is shows differs. While Dickinson explores death in a way in which it appears immortal and evil, Donne expresses death in a way which encourages the audience to see the connection and camaraderie between men. Dickinson explores the notion that death is immortal and controls pain. Her language implies that death is omniscient and has the power to regulate the pain felt by the author. She implies that death is not alway literal, death can be expresses through loss exemplified through her metaphor “my life closed twice before it’s close” meaning she died twice metaphorically before she die literally.

Chanel is one of the most prominent fashion brands, their cosmetic line is one that follows the brands positioning in the market, due to this it associated with being high end and luxury. This positioning has been influenced by the associations that consumers make between the brand and the founder Coco Chanel as well as drawing associations from haute-couture fashion as well as aligning the brand with the likes of the fashion scene (Chanel 2013). This brand has been positioned to exude luxury, perfection and quality and with associated high prices and simplistic but sophisticated packaging this has enabled the brand to be positioned as a high-end luxury brand (Chanel 2013).

In result of World War I, in 1914, women liked the idea of simple clothing. In 1919, Boy Chapel died. This event caused Coco to become depressed. She didn’t feel like making women’s wear was enough, so she also started making formal menswear. Her business thrived and she soon became one of the most known and famous fashion designers around the globe.

August 19, 1883, Saumur, France (“Coco Chanel”): this is the date of when Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was born. While Chanel’s aesthetic in her later years was glamour, glitz, and glam, her early years were not the same. Chanel's mother died when she was twelve, and due to her peddling father, she and her two other sisters went into foster care (Collage). There she was raised by nuns who taught her how to sew (“Coco Chanel”), a skill that will benefit her later in life. Before Chanel entered the fashion world, she was briefly a nightclub singer. This is where she coined the nickname “Coco” and met a very important man to her career (“Coco Chanel”). This man was the wealthy business man Arthur “boy” Cape, and

Coco’s business was a success. She sold clothing items to some of the most profound models and actresses of all time. During World War 2 Coco temporarily closed her shops in France. It’s been told that Coco was not found of Jews and that temporarily she was dating a Nazi. Since Coco’s perfume Chanel No.5 was owned by a Jewish family who did not return after the war.

When everyone was all about uncomfortable corsets, Chanel introduced cardigan jacket, and the little black dress. Simplicity, and comfort were the most important aspects of her work. Even though she tried to hide her past from the public, she stayed true to herself in private. Huge parts of her past is visible through her work. Like how she developed her love for everything black and white, from growing up with nuns, or how she became obsessed with suits because of one of her lovers. She believed in effortlessness, athleticism, and freedom, and everything she made clearly reflected that. Chanel was her own best model. She never wore anything that she didn’t made herself, but she got the word out by giving away her latest designs to influential women, “Chanel kept a careful eye on her own growing fame, while at the same time shrugging it off, she liked to claim sole responsibility for creating not just the modern woman’s wardrobe, but the entire woman herself, one who strode down the road in her short swingy skirts, smoking, taking lovers, and listening to jazz” (Karbo 99). The engine that drove her life was work, perfectionism, and a determination to avoid having to rely on anyone, not exactly the carefree traits of a party girl, and that’s what

Today, one of the most important items that a woman must have in her closet is a little black dress and Coco Chanel was the woman that made having one so important. Ms. Chanel had a very rewarding career and, even today, her and her company are huge parts of the fashion world. While researching her early life, lovers, career, and her death, there were many facts about Miss Coco Chanel that made her a truly intriguing person to research. She seemed to have led a very interesting life, but she may not have been happy. That is probably why she kept going for the richer and more powerful men and why she lied so much about her past. The inconsistencies were evident throughout all the research, even up to her cause of death.

Fast forward to Chanel’s young adult life, and you can see it wasn’t long off that she would set up shop in Paris, France in 1910, eventually expanding out to Deauville, and then Biarritz. She had started off with designing, and marketing hats which became a very successful hit amongst the fashionistas of that day. Chanel’s empire was growing exponentially, and in 1920 she expanded into the realms of couture now working in jersey which at the time was unheard of in the French fashion circle. Soon she was blurring the lines of what was acceptable, setting fashion trends instead of adhering to the routine, and was giving way to entire style genres such as the “chemise” and the “little boy” look. Her fashion statements were a gigantic contrast to what was socially acceptable, and of course Chanel fell under scrutiny over it, but she went on to create more casual, shorter, and idyllically “liberating” clothing for the day’s modern woman. In essence she was liberating women from the stuffy, confining fashions that they were used to, and giving way to a loose more relaxed style all together while maintaining it’s inherent feminine charm. Chanel was creating more than just a design, or an article of clothing, she was creating a movement that would change the way society viewed fashion in it’s entirety. (Lewis)

B. Coco Chanel’s “The Little Black dress” is thought to be element to the world of women’s fashion.

The term “The Little Black Dress,” the fragrance “Chanel No. 5,” the Chanel suit with its soft, cardigan-like jacket and skirt, have become part of the timeless fashion vocabulary familiar to us all. From our perspective, these aspects of modern fashion hardly seem revolutionary, but Coco Chanel was a businesswoman who became successful by adopting fashion to the evolving role of women in a rapidly changing wartime society; her vision that left a legacy which endures to this day.