At birth Chanel’s name was entered into the official registry as “Chasnel.” It is speculated that this spelling was a clerical error or an ancient spelling of the family name. [3] The couple eventually had five other children: Julia-Berthe, (1882–1913), Antoinette (born 1887) and three brothers, Alphonse (born 1885), Lucien (born 1889) and Augustin (born and died 1891). In 1895, when she was twelve years old, Chanel’s mother died of tuberculosis. Her father sent her two brothers out as farm laborers and the three daughters to a bleak area of central France, the Corrèze, into the hands of a convent for orphans, Aubazine. [4] It was a stark, frugal life demanding strict discipline but raised with the charity of the Catholic faith.
In 1969, she opened a boutique called Betsey Bunky Nini on New York's Upper East Side. In the 1970s, Johnson took control of the fashion label "Alley Cat" which was popular for rock 'n roll musicians of the day. In her first year, her debut collection for Alley Cat reportedly sold $5 million in volume. In 1972 she won the Coty Award. In 1978, Johnson started her own fashion line.
When she was eighteen Sophia was introduced to Leo Tolstoy, who began to visit the family often. Although it was thought that he favored her elder sister, Lisa, Leo proposed to Sophia on September 17, 1862. The couple was married a mere week later, in Moscow, and immediately retreated to the Tolstoy family estate, Yasnaya Polyana. Sophia had been keeping a diary from the time she was eleven but had it destroyed just before the wedding. On the other hand, in an act similar to a character created in his work Anna Karenina, Leo asked his new bride to read his personal diaries.
She also no longer referred to him as Curtius, she called him “uncle.” A couple of years later, Curtius moved to Paris to start working on setting up a wax exhibition. Later that year, Tussaud and her mother joined Curtius and also moved to Paris. Only being ten years old, Curtius saw the talent in Tussaund and asked her to help him create a waxwork of Louis XV’s last mistress, Madame Du Barry, a cast of which is the oldest work currently on display. The first exhibition of Curtius' waxworks was shown in 1772, and attracted a big crowd. The wax figure of Madame Du Barry was displayed and everyone was surprised by the artwork.
SWOTT Analysis Donna Karan started her fashion career at a young age working with Liz Clairborne, then as an assistant designer with the well-known fashion house of Anne Klein. Donna was born with her mother as a showroom model, and her father was a practicing suit maker/ tailor, so it seems inevitable that she would be part of the fashion industry. While attending the prestigious Parson’s school of design in 1968, Donna Karan was offered a summer job working for the designer, Anne Klein. While at Klein, she met and married her second husband, a clothing boutique owner, Mark Karan. At the age of 24, after graduating from Parsons, Kline offered her a full time position as one of its designer; then two years later she was promoted to associate designer, and had become Klein's successor.
Marilyn Monroe Norma Jean Mortenson, then known by the World as Marilyn Monroe, was born on June 1st, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Gladys Baker, was a woman with many psychological problems, so Marilyn had a difficult childhood and adolescence. She had to live many complicated situations that brought her problems for the rest of her short life. Before becoming a sex symbol, she used work in a factory, where a journalist found her and asked to take her some photographs. After that, she joined a well-known model agency called Blue Book, where the manager told her to dye her dark hair to a platinum-blond.
Each dress was accompanied by a pattern that he drew and saved. He took his pattern drawings to Madeline Cheruit, one of the grand dames of Parisian fashion in the late 19th century and she bought 12 of the drawings for reproduction in her atelier. Sensing opportunity, the young Poiret began to sell his patterns to the various Paris garment houses. In 1896 he was hired to design for Jacques Doucet. Poiret's first creation for Doucet was a red cape which sold 400 pieces.
When Angelou was 12 years old an educated black woman from Stamps by the name of Bertha Flowers helped her to break this silence. Angelou graduated at the top of her Morrison 2 eighth grade class in Stamps, Arkansas. Because of the racial issues in Stamps, their grandmother thought it was in the best interest of the children to move them to California. Angelou attended George Washington High School where she studied dance, music and drama. At the age of seventeen Angelou graduated from high school and gave birth to a son Guy Bailey Johnson.
I am going to write about her life and her time as a suffragette. Emily Davison was born at Blackheath London on the 11th October in 1872. She was a very bright women and she got a herself a place in Holloway collage but sadly had to give up because her mother came ill due to stress however her father died and there was no wage coming into her family her mother could not afford to pay the college fees. Later on in life she became a private teacher and paid for herself to go to London University, graduating with a BA. she was a very smart women.
In fact, according to Levy, W., (1999), “until she was sixteen she lived half of the year with her spinster aunts, her father’s sisters, in New Orleans, and the other half with her parents on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City” (pg. 350). This resulted in her wanting to be alone and quitting college at the age of 19, taking a job with a publisher. Many of her plays drew from her life and family. “The Children’s Hour” was Ms. Hellman’s first success at the age of 29.