Coco Chanel was a fashion designer known for innovations as classic as the women's suit, the quilted bag, the costume jewelry and the “little black dress”. It also presented the successful perfume Chanel No. Chanel specializes in ready-to-wear clothing for women, luxury goods and accessories, and licenses its name and brand to Luxottica for eyewear. Chanel is known for its No.
Chanel is credited with revolutionizing high fashion and ready-to-wear by replacing structured, corset silhouettes with more functional garments that women still found flattering. Chanel is also known for its two-piece suits. The collarless tweed jacket and well-fitting skirt set gives women an attractive, tailored fit, but doesn't feel stiff. Chanel is a private company owned by Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, grandchildren of Pierre Wertheimer, who was one of Coco Chanel's first business partners.
Its products include clothing, fragrances, bags and watches. The brand is most famous for its “little black dress”, the Chanel No. Karl Lagerfeld joined Chanel as creative director in 1983 and continued in the position until his death in February. China is the second largest market, after the US.
UU. United States, EE. Fashion designer Coco Chanel is famous for her timeless designs, signature outfits, and little black dresses. In the 1920s, she launched her first perfume and, finally, introduced the Chanel suit and the little black dress, with an emphasis on making garments that were more comfortable for women.
She herself became a highly revered style icon, known for her simple yet sophisticated outfits paired with great accessories, such as several pearl threads. After having envisaged the Nazi occupation policy of confiscating and expropriating Jewish companies and assets in France from Germany, Pierre Wertheimer, the majority partner, had earlier, in May 1940, appointed Felix Amiot, a French Christian industrialist, as an Aryan proxy whose legal control of the Parfums Chanel business proved politically acceptable to the Nazis, who then allowed the perfume company to continue operating. With the creation of Paraffection, a subsidiary company to support artisanal manufacturing, the Chanel House now encompasses the entire range of luxury items essential to the Chanel brand. Born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel and orphaned at an early age, it was the aunts in charge of raising her who originally taught Chanel how to sew, which set her on the path to becoming one of the world's true fashion greats.
During World War II (1939-1944), Coco Chanel closed her store at Maison Chanel, leaving only jewelry and perfumery for sale, and moved to the Hôtel Ritz in Paris, where she lived with her boyfriend, Hans Günther von Dincklage, a Nazi intelligence officer. In 1924, Pierre Wertheimer founded Parfums Chanel, to produce and sell perfumes and cosmetics; perfumery proved to be the most profitable commercial division of Chanel S. In the post-war period, during the Swiss exile of Coco Chanel from France, Pierre Wertheimer returned to Paris and regained formal administrative control of his family's commercial properties, including control of Parfums Chanel, the perfumery created with his venture capital and which succeeded thanks to the name Chanel. The Maison Chanel originated in 1909, when Gabrielle Chanel opened a hat shop at number 160 Boulevard Malesherbes, the ground floor of the Parisian apartment of the textile businessman Étienne Balsan, of whom she was a lover.
In 1947, Wertheimer and Coco renegotiated the original 1924 Chanel Parfums contract, and Coco Chanel finally returned to her native France after living in Switzerland for eight and a half years. In 1932, Chanel presented a jewelry exhibition dedicated to diamonds as a fashion accessory; it included the Comet and Fountain diamond necklaces, which had such an original design that Chanel S. During those salons, Coco Chanel became friends with Arthur Boy Capel, a member of English high society and a polo player who was a friend of Étienne Balsan; according to the social custom of the upper class, Chanel also became Boy Capel's lover. In 1986, the Chanel House reached an agreement with watchmakers and, in 1987, the first Chanel watch debuted.
In 1925, Chanel introduced the now legendary Chanel suit with a collarless jacket and a well-fitting skirt. As for clothing, some of Chanel's designs were derived from the military uniforms that prevailed during the war; and, by 1915, the designs and clothing produced by the House of Chanel were already known throughout France. .
