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| Samanta Jones at Paris Fashion Week |
She's going to work with the best French designers like Pierre Cardin, Guy Laroche, René Lacoste, Hubert de Givenchy, Jean-Paul Gautier, Paco Rabanne, Nina Ricci, Yves Saint-Laurent, Louis Vuitton and, obviously her favourite ones, Coco Chanel and Christian Dior.
Samantha is going to continue her fashion career in one the most important and recognized cities of the world and she's going to say goodbye to her family, which is going to continue with its world tour.
More information: FHCM Paris
Gabrielle Bonheur Coco Chanel (1883-1971) was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. She was the founder and namesake of the Chanel brand. Chanel was credited in the post-World War I era with liberating women from the constraints of the corseted silhouette and popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style.
A prolific fashion creator, Chanel extended her influence beyond couture clothing, realising her design aesthetic in jewellery, handbags, and fragrance. Her signature scent, Chanel No. 5, has become an iconic product.
She is the only fashion designer listed on TIME magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. Chanel designed her famed interlocked-CC monogram, meaning Coco Chanel, using it since the 1920s.
More information: Biography
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| Coco Chanel with Salvador Dalí |
She is the only fashion designer listed on TIME magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. Chanel designed her famed interlocked-CC monogram, meaning Coco Chanel, using it since the 1920s.
Chanel's social connections appeared to encourage a highly conservative personal outlook. Rumors arose about Chanel's activities in the course of the German occupation of France during World War II, and she was criticised for being too comfortable with the Germans. One of Chanel's liaisons was with a German diplomat, Baron Freiherr Hans Günther von Dincklage.
After the war ended, Chanel was interrogated about her relationship with von Dincklage, but she was not charged as a collaborator. After several years in Switzerland after the war, she returned to Paris and revived her fashion house.
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| Grandma's memories with Helen Mirren in Paris |
In 2011, Hal Vaughan published a book on Chanel based on newly declassified documents of that era, revealing that she had collaborated with Germans in intelligence activities.
One plan in late 1943 was for her to carry an SS separate peace overture to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to end the war. Her dislike of Jews, reportedly inculcated by her convent years and sharpened by her association with society elites, had solidified her beliefs. She shared with many of her circle a conviction that Jews were a threat to Europe because of the Bolshevik government in the Soviet Union.
One plan in late 1943 was for her to carry an SS separate peace overture to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to end the war. Her dislike of Jews, reportedly inculcated by her convent years and sharpened by her association with society elites, had solidified her beliefs. She shared with many of her circle a conviction that Jews were a threat to Europe because of the Bolshevik government in the Soviet Union.
Unlike the pre-war era, when women reigned as the premier couturiers, Christian Dior achieved success in 1947 with his New Look, and a cadre of male designers achieved recognition: Dior, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Robert Piguet, and Jacques Fath. Chanel was convinced that women would ultimately rebel against the aesthetic favored by the male couturiers, what she called illogical design: the waist cinchers, padded bras, heavy skirts, and stiffened jackets.
According to Edmonde Charles-Roux, Chanel had become tyrannical and extremely lonely late in life. In her last years she was sometimes accompanied by Jacques Chazot and her confidante Lilou Marquand. A faithful friend was also the Brazilian Aimée de Heeren, who lived in Paris four months a year at the nearby Hôtel Meurice. The former rivals shared happy memories of times with the Duke of Westminster. They frequently walked together around central Paris.
More information: The Telegraph
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
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