The Big Start | Coco Chanel

Chanel

    As a girl who is into fashion I can not miss the one and only Gabrielle Chanel. I am sure she is an inspiration for every disigner after her age. But this is not gonna be a post about her life. I wanted to folllow the way she started her career. Of courese it is a big deal to continue the life work of such an innovative person but this maight be another post.

The Coco Chanel era (1909-1920)

    The first step Coco took was to open a small milinery shop. At that time the french rich men used to display their wealth on their mistesses. As a smart woman she saw the opportunity to sell them her products. Thus she made some money and with the help of a wealthy man she opened her first independant shop(Chanel Models). Two years later her shops offered for sale sports clothes for women. Coco also opened a large dress shop near hotel Ritz in Paris. Gabrielle used a jersey cloth for some of the garments that she made and some of the designes derived from the military uniform of the First World War. Almost 10 years after she had opened her first shop, a magazine (Harper's Bazaar) spreaded her fame by saying that the garments she had  created were "on the list of every bayer". After the First World War, Chanel designed beaded dresses and woman's suit of clothes. Sooner she commissioned the perfumer Beaux to create a perfume for the Hause of Chanel - Chanel №5 ( name after the number of the sample Coco liked best). 

      So this was the rise of Coco Chanel. I am surprised how a woman managed to do this all alone ( she was an orphan) at a hard period of time for the whole world. It was not easy I agree with this, she was even a mistess but I can forgive her about that because that was the path for her to show that mignificent talent to the world.
      I want to end this post with something Chanel said "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." 
P.S. Totally agree with you Coco!