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.
In her early years she often borrowed clothes of her lovers: white shirts, ties, coats. Later she made this one of the principles of her art: adapting the elements of male attire for feminine use. Chanel became a fashion icon herself with her bob haircut and her modern clothes. She launched her first perfume, Chanel No. 5, on May,5th, because she used to say that 5 is her lucky number.
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. And there was no turning back in appreciating the harbinger of modernism. Poiret was an influential French designer of early twentieth century who led a fashion renaissance, abandoned from the rational fame for a long time is celebrated as the true precursor who created the standards of modern fashion. He was an inspiration of not only passion but also state of the art hard work and smart work. He moved with the time and focused on creativity rather than expensive couture.
As an online retailer of diamonds and fine jewelry, Blue Nile provides excellent guidance and support to enable customers to learn about and purchase diamonds as well as classically styled fine jewelry. The company has a current market value of approximately $2 billion while the firm continues to grow. Blue Nile typically trades at about $100 a share after an initial public stock offering of $25 back in May of 2004i. The company has drastically increased its trading
When their lawyers met, they got it to one million dollars in cash. Milton accepted it and he was now a millionaire. In 1884 Milton Hershey won the Most Substantial Citizen from the Lancaster News. Milton Hershey got married on May 20, 1898 to a woman he called Kitty. They went on lots of trips together but Milton wanted to start a new chocolate factory.
“I am not young but I feel young. The day I look old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime La Vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing” –Coco Chanel ♥ Coco Chanel was born Jeanne Gabrielle Chanel in Saumur, France. She was born out of wedlock, but the couple got married when Coco turned 1 year old.
In the story it said that rich girls don’t marry poor men, and that is shown in both Gatsby and fitzgerald. “the publication of this side of paradise on march 26, 1920, made the twenty-four year old fitzgerald famous almost over night, and a week later he married Zelda sayre in new york. Zelda married fitzgerald when he became famous and had a lot of money. Daisy married Gatsby when he impressed her with his big parties. “daisy is won over, oddly, by the amount of shirts that Gatsby owns” (www.geocities.com).
Haute couture clothes are expensive and luxurious in such dresses you will feel like a queen or a special person. However, there is one more category pret-a-porter more known to us as ready-to-wear. We can’t explain fashion without haute couture and pret-a-porter that both are very important main categories of the fashion industry. The fact that many press and celebrities attend haute couture and prêt-a-porter fashion show to look their collections twice a year indicates that collections are a big issue of fashion each season during a period known as fashion week. Designers of haute couture and prêt-a-porter affect people who are interested in fashion and suggest to people fashion trend.
CHILD BEAUTY PAGEANTS The idea of Beauty Pageants started back in 1921 when the owner of an Atlantic City hotel thought of the idea in order to promote tourism. The winner of these contests would gain the title of Miss America, this has been a yearly event ever since. Then when the 1960’s came about pageants were becoming so popular that a ‘Little Miss America’ was started, originally open to 13 – 17 year olds but by the time 1964 came around there were over 35,000 participants which prompted an age division. Now a days children as young as two and three also participate. Beauty pageants as we know them today arisen in the late 1960’s in Miami, Florida.
“The sales of Hello Kitty merchandise now account for half of Sanrio’s billion dollar empire with her face adorning over 50,000 products, and being sold in more than 60 countries.”(Walker) Simple products such as coin purses, jewelry, and skateboard decks have became popular in sales. She became so irresistible to her audience that company created new poses, new outfits, new friends, and even a boyfriend was created for her. Hello Kitty became a symbol, an icon, and now was apart of the taste culture. With rising popularity in fame and sales, Sanrio decided to make Hello Kitty the only character who lives in a fictional dreamt fantasy. She matured