A movie from Sony has just come out in the last couple weeks called COCO BEFORE CHANEL. Now People Magazine hates it, and other reviewers like it, so I thought why not just link to the official web site for the movie and let my readers browse it? Chanel lived from 1882 to 1971 and is known for her massive influence on women's fashions, moving us out of those garments that threatened to not just mold our figures but hurt our bones, into comfortable and easy.
There probably isn't any woman whose interviewed for a serious job that hasn't donned at least one Chanel-inspired dress-for-success suit or dress.
Coco wasn't always an extremely demanding mistress of fashion though. She started out a working poor girl - a shop girl - who had a rich lover or two who would not marry her because of the difference in their classes. Having read a book or two on Chanel, since she fell in love, it must have been heartbreaking for her to be refused marriage.
But ever practical, she got the funds she needed to start her own shop.
UPDATE 2020 : Since this original CoCo Chanel post, Coco has become one of the few Mistresses that I've featured TWICE, two months. You can find the posts using the search feature embedded in this Google Blogger, or look through the archives to find those posts.
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