When she turned eighteen, she left the orphanage, and took up work for a local tailor. Also, she sang and danced in a cabaret, trying to make a career as a singer.It was at this time that Gabrielle acquired the name “Coco,” a name possibly derived from a popular french song. At the age of twenty-two Coco Chanel met Etienne Balsan, a gentleman horse breeder and accepted his proposal to live together, for the next 3 years .While living with him, Coco began designing hats as a diversion, which soon became an important interest for her. Soon, she met one of Balsan's friends, Arthur Capel who helped Coco to open her first shop in Paris,in 1910. Her first taste of clothing success came from a dress she fashioned out of an old jersey.
After she parted with Balsan, she became involved with Arthur Chapel who financed her expansion for her lines of designs. From his help, he was able to provide her two boutiques in Brittany, Deauville. Her expansion had made such a great impact because she made women's apparel comfortable. Women in the 20th century were expected to dress in tight corsets, but she made these corsets more comfortable and breathable. Moreover, she even changed the style of dressing by designing jersey for outerwear.
Later, in 1913, she would open her first boutique in Deauville, France. For the rest of her life she would work as both craftsman and businesswoman. She would put forward her ideas for the art of fashion design. She first started off as a hat maker to the divas, that’s when her name was revealed to Paris. Her business grew to be something never known in the history of fashion.
They first lived on East 72nd street and shortly thereafter moved to a house on East 64th street. Compared to others in the fashion industry, she was getting a late start, beginning her line at the age of 40. Her exquisitely detailed and expertly crafted creations were an immediate success. Chic, sophisticated women all over the world turned to her label for the type of impeccable suits, dresses, and gowns that she instinctively knew how to design, having grown up in a world where women only wore haute couture. Herrera herself had attended her first couture show when she was 13 with her grandmother.
Erin Weinberger Theater Fundamentals October 22, 2010 Agnes de Mille Agnes de Mille was born in New York, New York in 1905 to the parents of William C. deMille who was a playwright and soon to be Hollywood director and Anna George, the daughter of a well known economist in New York. When she was still young her family moved to Hollywood to become part of the business there. Because Agnes was still a child she attended a Hollywood school for girls. Then went on to graduate from University of California at Los Angeles being part of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. In 1932 she then moved back to New York when her parents divorced and started choreographing dance numbers to perform.
Since Vixen is set in a different time period – the 1920’s to be exact – the places and clothing are unfamiliar to the audience so Larkin describes with intricate detail. She shows an example of her vivid writing as soon as the story opens up by saying “Her gold-beaded dress, cascading in waves of crystalline fringe, covered the intersection between her sheer stocking and bare thigh. She slipped her right foot into one of her two-toned Mary Janes, her left foot into the other. The thin black straps went across her ankles, the silver buckles tightened with a pinch.” (Vixen
Le Magnifique Paul Poiret (pōl pwärĕ) (1879- 1944) Le Magnifique Paul Poiret (pōl pwärĕ) (1879- 1944) Tanya GG Tanya GG I. Why Paul Poiret “Every decade has its seer or Sybil of style, a designer who, above all others, is able to divine and define the desires of women. In the 1910s, this oracle of the mode was Paul Poiret, known in America as "The King of Fashion." Paul Poiret was a name that was little known to me until recently. The Laurel “The King of fashion” set me inquisitive and the readings and facts belittled the prominent pioneers and enlightened the true harbinger of the modern fashion.
c) In her early 20’s, Chanel became involved with Etienne Balsan, the man who would help her finance her dream to become a milliner (a person who makes or sells women’s hats). “My fortune is built on that old jersey that I’d put on because it was cold in Deauville.” 2. Beginning of an era a) 1910- Chanel opened her first shop in Paris’s Rue Cambon selling hates. b) A few years later she opened stores in Deauville and Biarritz and began making clothes. 3.
Before the 20th century women rarely wore trousers and never blazers. This changed when Gabriel “Coco” Chanel decided to turn fashion upside down. Chanel catered to women’s needs and wants, rather than what was believed to be in style. Gabriel Chanel believed, “Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.” Therefore the corsets and hobble skirts that preceded Chanel’s reign of style were not deemed luxury to the designer. Coco Chanel created sweaters of jersey and a women’s blazer that are still impactful.
History The Countess in a photo by Pierre-Louise Pierson (c. 1863/66) Fashion Photography has been in existence since the early days of photography. In 1856, Adolphe Braun published a book containing 288 photographs of Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione, a Tuscan noblewoman at the court of Napoleon III. The photos depict her in her official court garb, making her the first fashion model. [1] In the first decade of the 20th century, advances in halftone printing allowed fashion photographs to be featured in magazines. Fashion photography made its first appearance in French magazines such as La mode pracque.