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    The Fame of Coco Chanel

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    many women to not eat nor breathe. That’s when Coco Chanel change everything for women, that made her career in the fashion industry go through the roof. Before Coco became an icon in the fashion industry, she was put in an orphanage ever since her dad had left her sister and her. Coco was then raised by nuns, which is where she was taught to sew, a skill will help her to fame. Though her name wasn’t always Coco, her birth name was Gabrielle Chanel. Her nickname came from her first job as a singer

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    Coco Chanel

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    interested in Coco Chanel?" and if I'm honest, I was fascinated long before I started researching her biography more than a decade ago, all the way back to my earliest memories in childhood. For there on top of my mother's dressing table stood a bottle of Chanel No. 5, beyond my reach but not out of sight, and I knew from the moment I began to discern its mysterious letters and number that there was something magical to the black-and-white cipher. I'm not alone in that discovery -- Chanel has come to

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    Essay On Coco Chanel

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    Lavariega Mrs. Johnson Senior paper Date (The Revolutionary Coco Chanel) Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, known to most as Coco Chanel, “Arguably the most influential fashion designer of all time, Coco Chanel revolutionised the way women wore clothes and paved a new way for the fashion brand, capitalising on the changing times she was living in and her status as a fashion icon”(Dunne). Her clothing designs, from the use of jersey to the Chanel suit demonstrate her rebellious to the common norm. Her impact

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    Have you ever taken a step back and looked How Coco Chanel Revolutionised Fashion By Sienna Hollis at how fashion has revolutionised over the years? Well, this article is taking a step back in time all the way to the early 1900’s to look at the way that Coco Chanel changed fashion. Coco Chanel was all about empowering women through her designs by throwing stereotypes of how women should dress out of the window. She introduced many trends that we still see within todays society with many of her original

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    Coco Chanel

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    Gabrielle Chanel was born in the French town of Saumur on the 19th of August 1883. She was one of 5 children and when her mother died; her father couldn’t manage on his own so the girls went to an orphanage and the boys to work on a farm. Gabrielle stayed at the orphanage and visited grandparents on holidays until 1900 when she moved in with them. She went to a local convent school with her aunt Adrienne who was almost the same age as Gabrielle, she remained a valued friend. Gabrielle and Adrienne

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    Impact Of Coco Chanel

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    Essay Name: Eliana Sucre Candidate number: xxxxxx Topic: Coco Chanel’s impact on women’s fashion Research Question: To what extent did Coco Chanel fashion innovations influence feminism in Europe from 1920 until 1950? Word Count: Contents Introduction to Coco Chanel 1 Chapter 1: Impact on Women 1 Chapter 2: Timeless Coco Chanel 4 Conclusion

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    Coco Chanel Bibliography

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    Coco Chanel At the start of the twentieth century, the idea of women in business seemed crazy. In those days, men held all the positions of power and made all the decisions about money. They believed that a woman’s place was in the home, looking after her children, cooking for her family and managing the house. If a woman needed to work she could perhaps find a job in a shop or in a factory, but she had no chance of working as a businesswoman or a banker or a lawyer. Women’s fashions in the

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    Coco Chanel was born on the 19th of August in 1883 in Sammur, France her parents giving her the name Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel. When Coco was around 12 her mother passed away this provoked her father to abandoned her and her 5 siblings, she and her sisters were sent to a convent for abandoned girls and her brothers were sent to work. The time she spent in the convent was a dark time therefor she didn’t like to speak of but she reflected in some of her pieces as she used the tones and shapes from

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    Coco Chanel Biography

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    Today, one of the most important items that a woman must have in her closet is a little black dress and Coco Chanel was the woman that made having one so important. Ms. Chanel had a very rewarding career and, even today, her and her company are huge parts of the fashion world. While researching her early life, lovers, career, and her death, there were many facts about Miss Coco Chanel that made her a truly intriguing person to research. She seemed to have led a very interesting life, but she may

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    that “the characteristics of transformational leaders in Bass model are idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual simulation and individual consideration.” Through this four factors we can see how Coco Chanel is a transformational leader. I personally view Coco Chanel as a transformational leader not based only on how she liberated women in the 19th century. It is also how she treated the people around her,

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