My idol---Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel was born on 19 August 1883, she was a pioneering French fashion designer and an important figure in 20th--century fashion. She was the founder of the famous fashion brand Chanel. Her extraordinary influence on fashion was such that she was the only person in the fashion field to be named on Time 100:The Most Important People of Century.

At first, Chanel was a hat designer, in that time, many French women liked to wear hat. She created a v


ery special style, although they were not gorgeous, they were still dignified. She created Chanel because the princess said " where did you buy your hat?" Chanel said "Chanel,in Paris" but that time, she didn't have own shop.



In 1921, Chanel invented the Chanel No.5 perfume,the straight bottle was very different design with other bottle. "Five" is said to be the lucky number of Coco, and this number was named the perfume because it is the fifth attempt.

Chanel suit launched in 1923, and the classic Little Black Dresses (LBD) was also very popular, it designed by fashion and comfortable. I think that is the Chanel's typical style. Simple and elegant design, versatile use for day and night, the main colour were black and white.

I think, Chanel is a clever woman, she can catch every opportunity. After the World War 2, when other designers still used expensive fabrics, Chanel think, it wasn't the time which people have much money to buy clothes, so she used the cheapest and comfortable fabrics, such as cotton and wool, to make clothes, her brand was became famous in that time.

Maybe some people think her personal life isn't good, because she had many men in her life. But I think, in the war time, a poor person want to entry into fashion is a difficult thing, she grew up in orphanage, but she want to give her sister a good life. she should like them who were together. She never married, because she thinks everyone can become some one's "wife", but there is only Chanel.

She is my idol, because she know how to create fashion, what is fashion. Using the sentence said by Chanel herself "Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.