The factors that influenced Coco Chanel’s unraveling success were uniqueness, hard work and communicating success. Her most important influences on the fashion industry was transforming uncomfortable women clothing such as corsets to clothing that was more comfortable yet still gave a timeless appeal and ladylike appearance.
Being able to create a movement of her own, Modernism and changing fashion for women, Chanel will forever be known as a remarkable fashion designer. I believe the fact that she put a woman’s worth as her main focus into creating her designs is what made consumers around the world admire her work. She knew that in the 20th century, to be elegant and fashionable meant money and a lot of it. The materials used for trendy clothing were very costly. This leads to Chanel using jersey as her main fabric choice. It was a cheaper fabric of choice. Most may wonder why she chose this fabric therefore you must know that Chanel did not come from a family full of riches and wealth. She became wealthy because she knew what it was like to be deprived of it and suffer in poverty. Her past impacts her genius ways of thinking to be able to create such clothing. Along with using jerseys as her fabric, Chanel’s main goal when creating a new design is to keep the men clothing in mind. The clothing was fitting but not suffocating. This changed the whole world’s outlook on how women should appear. It gave women the independence, confidence and power to say “Hey, I’m no different from a male and there is no set way to how I should look as a female if I so do not choose”.
Chanel greatly carried an immense amount of creativity along with her expertise in the business industry. Her most innovating creation will always be remembered. T...
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...ou cannot create something you wouldn’t wear yourself. She communicated success by stating in her creations that if you look the part, you will always deem an image of a powerful yet successful individual even if you weren’t at the top yet.
Lastly, she always found an inspiration. She found inspiration in guy clothing but also as well as in paintings (evidence of what painting and so forth will be included in final draft) and she was persistent. Like any successful person there is a downfall to your rise. She didn’t let her downfall stop her from making a comeback somewhere in her late seventies before she passed away. Her drive and determination was contagious. With the reinvention of her designs and refreshing her ideas for her comeback, she gained the continuity of her legend in the fashion world. It will forever thrive and prosper for as long as fashion exists.
She began with a small boutique out of her own pocket and has grown to a world-renowned, award winning fashion designer, receiving awards varying from the Australian Louis Vuitton Business Award in 1997 to the Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World Award in 2002 (Collette Dinnigan, 2016). Collette Dinnigan is one of Australia’s most successful fashion designers who has taken many risks in the fashion industry and has used her initiative to become one of the most recognised designers worldwide. References: What is an entrepreneur? definition and meaning. 2016. Business Dictionary.
...s far as the author is concern, the fact that CoCo Chanel left the Victorian ideas and lived a life of her own made other women admire her. According to the author, clothing design was her star that raised her above other women. It would be better if other women would emulate her character and moral beliefs that should attract other women.
...ualities and influences we want to accept as truth instead of blindly accepting the book of myths. She encourages women to descend the ladder and find the “thing itself” and the meaning that thing has for each individual woman.
During her time in Moulins Chanel met and courted Etienne Balsan, an affluent textile hier. For three years she lived with him at his castle in Compiègne serving as his mistress. There Chanel lived a life of wealth and luxury that would not have been possible without Balsan. Later in her career it was those riches that inspired many of her iconic designs; her times spent on yachts lead her to incorporate those traditionally sailors looks of striped shirts and bell bottoms into her later
Like I said before, her designs are far apart from Chanel and Poiret, but somewhat similar. First, I don’t know where she got her ideas like that. She uses a lot of images that seems like not fitted into the dresses but somehow, I see it not as weird looking dress that is unattractive but as well-blended dress with elegance and classic looks. It is the shapes and colors that make the dress united and attractive. Influences of Cubism and Surrealism are also the reason why her design is unique. The artists who worked with her contributed the pattern and colors. She worked with Dali, Beroatd, and Cocteau to design fabrics and accessories. Some of designs that thought were weird and crazy are bug necklaces, ice cream cones hat and lamp cutlets shaped hat. I wonder how people dressed with these accessories. Although her design is unique, I certainly would never wear that bug necklace. It feels creepy to think that bugs are hanging around my neck. She also had an eye to see the object in other perspectives. For example, in 1935, she designed a zipper, which she dyed with same color as her fabrics and positioned them in exposed places. Another invention was her shocking pink.
Givenchy’s love for fashion grew when at the age of ten he attended the Pavillon d’ Elegance Paris Exposition. Once looking through Vogue magazine, he was inspired by Balenciaga men’s wear. He wanted to be a couturier and attended Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, to start a formal education in fashion. His designing inspirations came from Elsa Schiaparelli and Madam Gres’s work. His experience also came from working at the House of Piguet in Paris; this salon was known for its dramatic yet simple style and after, at the House of Lelong that was known for their high quality clothing. Those positions gave him knowledge on how to work with couture customers and gave him an opportunity to build strong relationships with them (Press, 2002).
Coco Chanel, born Gabrielle Bonhuer Chanel, on August 19, 1883 in Saumur, France was an amazing woman who redefined fashion as we know it today. She was a clothing designer who revolutionized the fashion industry with her suits, little black dresses, and avant garde flare. Because of this quickly in her young life she became well know, and rose to be the fashion icon that she is today. From the timeless designs that are still popular to this day, and the sophisticated outfits that can be paired with great accessories Chanel has done it all. When it comes down to it though it was Coco Chanel’s philosophy that “luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it’s not luxury” that lead to her success. (“Coco Chanel”)
She transformed traditional, functional country garments into new luxury items, all beautifully tailored and beautifully made in the finest fabrics.
In Deauville, she introduced casual knit dresses which was shockingly different from what others were creating and wearing. “She introduced relaxed dressing expressing the aspirations of the 20th century woman, replacing impractical clothing with functional styling.” (Martin 80). Her designs stressed simplicity and comfort and revolutionized the fashion industry. Within five years of her original use of jersey fabric to create a poor girl look, had attracted the attention of influential wealthy women seeking relief from the prevalent corseted style. In 1954, Chanel presented her new collection of the signature suit. The Chanel suit is a standard garment in modern fashion. “The key to her design philosophy was construction, producing traditional classics outliving each season’s new fashion trends and apparel.” (Martin
Working at her father’s clothing shop, she became very knowledgeable about expensive textiles and embellishments, which were captured in her works later in career. She was able to capture the beauty and lavishness of fabrics in portraits of aristocratic women.
Paul Poiret was born on April 20th, 1879 in Paris, France. His contributions to twentieth-century fashion has earned him the title in many people’s eyes as the “King of Fashion”, because he established the principle of modern dress and created the blueprint of the modern fashion industry. Poiret’s designs and ideas led the direction of modern design history. He was born into a working class family and his natural charisma eventually gained him entry into some of the most exclusive ateliers of the Belle Époque. Jacques Doucet, one of the capital’s most prominent couturiers, hired him after seeing promising sketches he had sold to other dressmakers. Furthermore, he was hired by the House of Worth and was put to work to create less glamorous and more practical, simple items because his out of the ordinary designs were not welcomed in open arms by opulent clientele. Despite this experience he was still confident in his ideas and ventured out on his own with money barrowed from his parents and opened a storefront. Moreover, he wanted to promote of the concept of a "total lifestyle” was seen as the first couturier to merge fashion with interior design. His independent work broke the normal conventions of dressmaking, and overturned their underlying presumptions. He liberated the woman’s body from the petticoat and the corset to allow clothing to follow woman’s natural form. Poiret also radically revolutionized dressmaking to switch from the emphasis surrounding the skills of tailoring towards those based on the skills of draping and began to use bright colors. Furthermore, Poiret was apart of the art deco movement, which was surrounded by a period of immense social upheaval, particularly for women, and emergence of technol...
She launched her signature cardigan jacket, and the following year matched its success with her little black dress. This revolutionary style took the idea of a color designated for mourning and transformed it into a simple and chic color for evening wear. In addition to this, she introduced the Chanel suit, which entailed a collarless jacket and a well-fitted skirt. Her designs were revolutionary for the time—borrowing elements of men’s wear and emphasizing comfort over the constraints of styles popular at the time, such as corseted silhouettes. All of these items, including many other items produced by Chanel, continue to be prevalent throughout modern fashion.
In the early 1800s, France was the sole fashion capital of the world; everyone who was anyone looked towards Paris for inspiration (DeJean, 35). French fashion authority was not disputed until the late twentieth century when Italy emerged as a major fashion hub (DeJean, 80). During the nineteenth century, mass produced clothing was beginning to be marketed and the appearance of department stores was on the rise (Stearns, 211). High fashion looks were being adapted and sold into “midlevel stores” so that the greater public could have what was once only available to the social elite (DeJean, 38). People were obsessed with expensive fashions; wealthy parents were advised not the let their children run around in expensive clothing. People would wait for children dressed in expensive clothing to walk by and then they would kidnap them and steal their clothes to sell for money (DeJean, 39). Accessories were another obsession of France‘s fashion; they felt no outfit was complete without something like jewelry or a shrug to finish off the look and make it all around polished (DeJean, 61). As designers put lines together, marketing began to become important to fashion in the nineteenth century; fashion plates came into use as a way to show off fashion l...
Fashion has been around ever since ancient times, since the time of the Romans, it survived the world wars and is yet today a business with rapid changes. Fashion started off as an art form, a way for the riches to show their social status with unique and innovative designs that only they could afford. It was a way to separate the social classes of the society. In this paper I will include the creator of haute couture, and how the following designers developed couture, as well as having leading names in today’s ready-to-wear industry. The list is long, but I chose to focus on the three most important designers of the modern fashion industry.
Clothing has been around for thousands of years; almost as long as the modern human has. At first, it served the practical purpose of protection from the elements; but, as life for early humans stopped being a constant struggle to survive, they started noticing how they looked and the concept of fashion began to take shape. These first few garments were typically dyed draped cloth that was pinned at the shoulder and/or waist. This was seen in many ancient civilizations around the world, Greek and Roman the most notable. Over time, clothing began to get more and more complex and formed to the body’s shape, eventually leading up to the tailored style we now have today. However, the sophisticated world of Haute Couture; or high fashion, can distinctly trace its roots to Paris during the mid-19th century. Clothing from there was thought to be superior to those from anywhere else, and women began to come from all over Europe just to buy dresses. This was probably due in part to one notable dressm...