In Chanel´s youth, she went through hard times. When Coco´s mother died, her father put her in an orphanage. Nuns that took care of her, taught the young girl how to sew. When she had a career as a singer, she gained her nickname ¨coco.¨ ¨Some say that the name comes from one of the songs she used to sing, and Chanel herself said that it was a “shortened version of cocotte, the French word for 'kept woman,'” according to an article in The Atlantic¨(biography.com). She opened her first hat …show more content…
As like in the 1920s, Chanel launched her initial fragrance Chanel No.5, and it was the introductory to the designer´s name. Later on, in 1925 Chanel showed her famous suit that has a collarless and a well-suited skirt. ¨Her designs were revolutionary for the time—borrowing elements of men’s wear and emphasizing comfort over the constraints of then-popular fashions¨ (Biography.com). She made a difference between gender equality and she helped women stop wearing uncomfortable corsets and incarcerating clothing. Afterwards, Chanel introduced a new fashion she calls her little black dress. Black being known as a colour you wear to a funeral, Coco transformed that colour into something trendy. She showed how to wear that new trend as an evening garb. Coco Chanel is a woman liberator, and with a simple change in fashion she created gender equality. Without Coco´s little fashion revolution, women would still be wearing corsets, long uncomfortable dresses, and other intolerable clothing. “What’s wonderful about her is she’s not a straightforward, easy woman to understand, says Shirley MacLaine¨