
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Coco Chanel Remembered
In celebration of the 125th birthday of fashion legend Miss Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel (1883-1971), Karl Lagerfeld has created a limited edition coin for Le Monnaie de Paris (the French Mint).
Although the coins bear the stamp of Five Euros, — the four gold or silver versions range in price from 45 Euros to 5,900 Euros and will go on sale at the French Mint on Dec. 1,2008.
However Coco Chanel is the most famous fashion designer, and her work changed women's fashion.
During World War I, women took over men's jobs, and the traditional pompous clothes disappeared. After the war, the development of fashion was influenced by the new attitude of women. Chanel lost her parents when she was young, and she did not have any money. She escaped from poor circumstances, and created revolutionary women's clothes. She was an inspirational person. She broke the traditional forms of women's clothes, and contributed to a change in women's sense through her clothes. Chanel was a woman of ambition and determination. She introduced simple, elegant, relaxed, and functional clothes that express the aspirations of women in the Twentieth Century.
She said, "Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone."
Saturday, November 1, 2008
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