Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel Fashion Designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) was born in Saumur‚ Southern France. She began by designing hats‚ first in Paris in 1908‚ and later in Deauville. Her fashion boutiques (one in Paris and one in Deauville) opened simultaneously in 1914. She opened an haute couture salon in Biarritz in 1916‚ and in 1920 moved to Paris in the present quarters on rue Cambon. Ready-to-wear fashions were not introduced until 1978‚ after Coco’s death. Chanel is a member of
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Barack Obama: A True American Icon An American Icon is an individual who has impacted America in a powerful way through their progressive or iconic actions. Barack Obama is a true American Icon. Throughout his presidency‚ Obama has been dedicated and focused on improving all of America and its people through his many policies and reform acts. During his two terms as U.S. President‚ Barack Obama has taken proactive measures to fix and rebuild our environment‚ created a health care plan that has benefited
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always been intriguing to me as they tend to shock or offend the audience or so cheeky the advertisement is almost a parody of real life itself. Other advertisements take classic images and reutilize them to fit the adverts. In this case it uses a style icon‚ a person forever memorialized for her beauty‚ sex appeal‚ and talent; Miss Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe has always been epitome of sex in media. Mystery and paparazzi have followed her since
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Fashion of the Jazz Age In the 1920’s‚ fashion for all ages saw a dramatic change and began an evolution towards fashion today. Throughout history‚ evolution in fashion has corresponded with changes in culture and values. After WWI‚ a large cultural shift was seen in America. The new ideas and values that emerged were reflected in the new fashion trends of the era. In the 1920’s‚ women’s fashion reflected a growth in their independence‚ men’s fashion evolved to reflect the new aspects of a more casual
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decade in which fashion entered the modern era. It was the decade in which women first abandoned the more restricting fashions of past years and began to wear more comfortable clothes (such as short skirts or trousers). Men also abandoned highly formal daily attire and even began to wear athletic clothing for the first time. The suits men wear today are still based‚ for the most part‚ on those worn in the late 1920s. The 1920s are characterized by two distinct periods of fashion. In the early part
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What is Fashion All About? What is it with fashion? It’s something that we all deal with everyday. From birth to old age‚ the way we dress says something about each and every one of us. Even those people who say that fashion doesn’t matter to them‚ still have to choose what they wear every day. Fashion says a lot about who we are and how we are feeling. One thing that is guaranteed is that fashion is always changing. We are always being subjected to new trends everywhere we look! Magazines
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From birth‚ a name is a powerful piece of who a person is. The name that is given to a person is what helps identifies one from another. My name‚ Daneisha Chanel Rayford‚ is what describes me as a person‚ and I could never picture myself with another one. I would like to consider my first name Daneisha to be unique. It is one of those names that most people fail to spell right. However‚ I can honestly say there are not many Daneisha’s in this world. In my opinion‚ how I was given the name Daneisha
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"Fashion is one of the greatest forces in present-day life. It pervades every field and reaches every class.… It has always been a factor in human life but never more forceful‚ never more influential and never wider in scope than in the last decade‚ and it gives every indication of growing still more important." So with everything in mind‚ we can really agree with him when he said that it was more than an expression of individual taste; it was instead a statement of group membership‚ of involvement
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Gabrielle Chanel was a very singular woman. As opposed to many other women of her era‚ she wanted to have a successful career‚ but most importantly‚ to achieve it by herself. She wasn’t afraid to work hard to be able to reach a certain wealth which‚ to her‚ symbolized her independancy. If we could back to her childhood‚ it is pretty easy to observe that having no money and no control over the instability of her life must’ve been difficult and it certainly had an impact on her life goals and the way
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time; its customs‚ its arts‚ and its conveniences or socially inherited artifacts. Over the years‚ arts have transformed many areas‚ such as; visual art‚ literature‚ music‚ theatre‚ film‚ dance‚ etc. Two very important Caribbean icons will be discussed in this piece. These icons are Antiguan Heather Doram and Trinidadian Beryl McBurnie. “If art is to nourish the roots of our culture‚ society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.” -John F. Kennedy Heather Doram is a renowned
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