Gabrielle whom is also know as Coco Chanel revolutionized the fashion world along with influencing the art world to the roles of women in the house hold, in which drastically changed during World War 1. Chanel is an original designer whose work presented the example of a modernized women even throughout the 21th century, in which Chanel's fashion continues to influence many designers and artist today. During the World War 1, the "flapper movement", was introduced, moreover contributes to a portion of Chanel's success. Chanel's objective was to create modernized clothes in which were practical, and more
comfortable for the "new women" of the 1920's.
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| Image of Coco Chanel |
World War and the flapper movement are both great influences of Coco Chanel's trends. During this time period women needed a more flexible wardrobe in which can be more suitable to their lifestyle. Women were supplied with Chanel's revolutionary style to live a more comfortable life with these modernized clothes. These women during War World 1, held working positions previously held by men. The dresses and suits made by Chanel were created to show a more feminine yet also masculine look. Jesse writes, in "Coco Chanel Fashion", "The flapper look shaped the face of fashion in the 1920's and will forever be linked the Coco Chanel." The flapper look revolutionized the use of kind of fabric, to the overall look of the young women of the 1920's.
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| The Style of the Flapper Movement, garment made by Coco Chanel. |
Chadwick writes, "Coco Chanel were "masculinizing" women's fashions, the "new look" also began to make its presence felt in the visual arts."(Cahdwick, p.302) The Victorian look was soon to fade. Chanel created dresses in which were made no longer to impress men, with a tight waist, Victorian look, which is portrayed in Lily Martin Spencer's paintings, "We Both Must Fade, 1869". But instead making it easier to breathe for these women in a more comfortable modernized attire. Coco Chanel influenced the art world of course, because art and paintings portray the fashion, and societal issues that are present of that time period. Chanel changed the look and the use of the tight irritable corsets, to what is viewed as the modern day look.
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| Lily Martin Spencer, We Both Must Fade, 1869 |
Another artists that resembles Chanels' work is Claude Cahun. Guerrilla Girls' quote, " Claude Cahun was one of the first 20th-century females to dress up an photograph herself in the name of art. (Guerrilla Girls, p. 62) In the name of art! Cahun was a stereotypical lesbian , and was sure proud of it. Cahun is another icon that has a great impact on how the world views women through photography, and art. "Cathrine Driscoll says in "Chanel: The Order of Things", For both gender and fashion are clearly intersecting languages for identity. While now as confrontational as Cahun, Chanel's cross-gender references contribute to the popular ground on which Sherman works, including those self-portraits in which she posed as a young man."(Driscoll, p.153) These two artists resemble each other for what they stood for, with great confidence, in which influenced the future generations of fashion, art, and photography.
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| Claude Cahun, Self-Portrait, 1928 |
Fashion is viewed as art, because of the great use of colors and formatting, layering, and technique that is required of making garments of any kind. Fashion is viewed in portraits, paintings, sculptors, and other forms of art, and tells a great deal of culture and society. Coco Chanel influence was mainly men! Men's underwear, the use of Jersey material, in which is also my favorite material I love to work with, gives an extreme comfort, and stretch to it, in which allows the body to move as it pleases, depending on what kind of garment of course. Coco Chanel revolutionized women clothing from the Victorian look to modernized fashion, and was a great influence on the new look the "flapper", in the 1920's. Coco Chanel died a legend, and an inspirational person.
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| The "Little Black Dress", also known as the "LBD", during the 1920's. The LBD was famously associated with Coco Chanel. |
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