Coco Chanel: "Fashion Changes, But Style Endures."
Coco Chanel: "Fashion Changes, But Style Endures."
Coco Chanel: "Fashion Changes, But Style Endures."
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In 1919, Chanel’s fashion
business had become so profitable
that she was able to
buy the entire building at 31 rue
Camdon, in Paris. After the
building renovations
were completed she opened the
doors of the beautiful new store
and it set the
standard for future fashion stores
where not only dresses but an
extended variety of
accessories could be sold.
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• When Chanel began her first business
designing fashionable hats, women had
been wearing long dresses, stiffly corseted,
made in heavy materials. Chanel couldn’t
find stylish and comfortable clothing to fit
her own needs, so she started her own
fashion line which innovative designs of
loose fitting dresses made in easy care
fabric.
• Her clothing line proved to be an
enormous success and her designs set many
of the trends that women are still wearing.
• Chanel also expanded her fashion line to
include accessories, such as jewelry,
handbags and fragrance Chanel No. 5
which still remains one of the bestselling
perfumes of all times.
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• As 1971 began, Chanel was 87 years old, tired, and ailing. She carried out her
usual
afternoon of Saturday, 9 January. Soon after, feeling ill, she went to bed early. She
died on Sunday, 10 January 1971, at the Hotel Ritz, where she had resided for more
than 30 years. Her funeral was held at the Église de la Madeleine; her fashion
models
occupied the first seats during the ceremony and her coffin was covered with white
flowers—camellias, gardenias, orchids, azaleas and a few red roses. She died in her
infamous style, announcing: "You see, this is how you die.”
• Her grave is in the Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Most of her estate was inherited by her nephew André Palasse, who lived in
Switzerland, and his two daughters, who lived in Paris.
• Although Chanel was viewed as a prominent figure of luxury fashion during her
life.
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• Chanel s influence has been continued further her deaths.
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