CoCO Chanel

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• Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971)
• fonder of the Chanel brand 
• Chanel was born into poverty in Saumur, France, and was taught to sew by  nuns
• she was possessed of an unusual, extrme confident  that was key 
• Chanel came of age as a designer during the Great War, 

coco chanel was born in  france

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• During the 1920s Coco Chanel became the first designer to create loose women's jersey
•  In 1922 she launched the fragrance Chanel No. 5 
• During World War II, Chanel was a nurse
• she got the name coco from singing in bars
• the little black dress , the Channel suit are two of her famous pices

her style

channel's uncluttered styles, with their boxy lines and shortened skirts, allowed women to leave their corsets behind and freed them for the activities brought by the war

Chanel's own lifestyle fueled her ideas of how modern women should look, act, and dress. Her own slim figure and cropped hair and her tanned skin, active lifestyle, and financial independence. Throughout her career, Chanel succeeded in and marketing her attitudes and style, making her a key person of women's taste in the twentieth century.

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Coco Chanel

Her casual clothing including the Chanel suit caught the eye She introduced pea jackets and bell bottom pants for women. She was still working in 1971 when she died.

Chanel also designed stage costumes for plays as Cocteau's Antigone (1923) and Oedipus Rex (1937) and film costumes for several movies, including Renoir's La Regle de Jeu.

She briefly served as a nurse in World War II. Nazis in Paris meant the fashion business in was cut off for some years; Chanel's affair during World War II with a Nazi officer also resulted in some years of non-popularity and an exile to Switzerland. In 1954 her comeback renewed her to the first ranks of haute couture.

being the mistress of a wealthy military officer then of an English industrialist, Chanel used these resources to set up a millinery shop in Paris in 1910 they also helped her find customers

during the time coco Chanel was in france there was a war  going on

in 1939, as World War Two loomed, the British and French planned to fight an better version of what happened in 1914-18 during World War One, but with some differences. The French had suffered casualties in attacks in 1914. This time they were going to remain on in western Europe, while their military forces and industrial base fight a total war.

france

• head of government: Prime Minister Jean-Marc AYRAULT
• Ethnic groups: Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, 
•  machinery and transportation equipment, aircraft, plastics, chemicals, iron and steel, beverages
• France today is one of the most modern countries in the world 
• Internet users: 45.262 million

the lifestyle

women

• women took place in politics, the home, the workplace, and in education. 
• the nineteenth amendment gave women the right to vote
• more women went to collage 
• in the 1920s only about 15 % of white and 30% black women had jobs 
• 1923  Equal Rights Amendment to eliminate sex discrimination.

the fashion

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• Natural fabrics such as cotton and wool were the abundant fabrics of the decade.
• metal hooks and eyes were developed 
• the average person's fashion sense became more sophisticated
• working women looked for modern style as they forewent rural to urban jobs
• Low-waisted dresses allowed women to kick up their heels

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