Coco Chanel
" Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."
Such a simple logo of interlocking C's is now synonymous with the ultimate luxury. Girls flock for jumbo flap bags, pearl necklaces, and tweed dresses. A handful of movies have been made to tell the story of Gabrielle Chanel, a woman who started as a singer, surrounded herself with rich men, and changed fashion forever.
She believed in comfortable luxury inspired by menswear and the fishermen of Deauville. Who would have dared made clothes for women out of cotton jersey?
The famous Chanel chain came from the use of chains to add weight to the bottom of the hems.
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She believed women should not be confined by corsets or any other type of restricting garment. She took the somber color black and made the Little Black Dress. She made clothes for women functional, unstructured and loose. And that tweed suit....oh the tweed suit! Introduced in 1925, the collarless jacket tweed suit is still being worn today by powerful women everywhere.
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." ~ Coco Chanel
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