Chanel Women

Coco Chanel was a French fashion designer and a very important figure in the fashion world in her time. A Coco Chanel biography will tell you many interesting facts about Coco including her real name was Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel. “Coco” was a nickname given to her while singing in a nightclub and the name stuck with her. Her interest and influence in creating exclusive custom fitted fashions earned her the honor of being named on TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the 20th century.

One of her first successes was the creation of Chanel No. 5 perfume. Chanel No. 5 was the first perfume to be sold worldwide. Helping with the success is a Chanel Ad with Nicole Kidman. The number 5, which happened to be Coco’s favorite number) was chosen because it was the fifth sample that was successful. Another interesting fact you will find in a Coco Chanel biography is that Coco always showed her samples on the fifth of the month. Another of Coco Chanel designs was a line of women’s hats she designed and sold when she was first getting started in business after starting a millinery shop.

Coco Chanel designs have been selling for many years. Coco did not believe in many frills in her Chanel clothes. One of her quotations was “Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But, they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape.” Coco Chanel believed that a woman could dress comfortably and still look beautiful and elegant.

Of all the Chanel clothing, the one item that put Coco ‘on the map’ as a designer was the famous Chanel suit. The suit consisted of a knee-length skirt with trim, a boxy type jacket made of woven wool with black trim and gold buttons. Chanel helped to make it more popular by wearing different accessories with it to show that a simple dress could be made elegant and versatile. As a successful designer, Chanel believed ‘simplicity is the keynote to all true elegance’.

In addition to bringing pea jackets and bell-bottom pants to popularity, Coco also designed a Coco Chanel dress. This black dress was very simple, as most of her creations) and was known as her signature “little black dress”, to which she is still remembered for today. A Chanel women, she lived as she designed: with simplicity and talent.