INFOGIFT.INFO » Fashion http://www.infogift.info/blog The gift of information and information on gift giving Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:37:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Coco Chanel: The Fashion Legend and Face on the Coin http://www.infogift.info/blog/coco-chanel-the-fashion-legend-and-face-on-the-coin/ http://www.infogift.info/blog/coco-chanel-the-fashion-legend-and-face-on-the-coin/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:00:32 +0000 Lana http://www.infogift.info/blog/?p=524 a

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Image from www.Luxist.com

 

 
Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel was born 19 August 1883. (Coco for “a little pet”).

 
“Chanel died in Paris on 10 January 1971, aged 88, in her private suite at the Hôtel Ritz, and she was buried in Lausanne, Switzerland. Her tombstone is carved with stone lion heads representing her birth sign, Leo.”

 
See the picture of Coco Chanel and her grave here:

 
Last year Karl Lagerfeld designed special limited edition coin to commemorate her 125th birth anniversary. The coin displays a portrait of Chanel in her little hat and pearl necklace together with a signature of Karl Lagerfeld  on one side, and the number 5, as “€5″ symbol for the denomination and the perfume, on the other. The coin is produced in gold, silver and metal.
(The cost and the amount of the coins produced is unclear to me, because  various sources quote different numbers).

 
Coco Chanel’s life was depicted in films and Broadway’s productions.

 
“She was still working in 1971 when she died. Karl Lagerfeld has been chief designer of Chanel’s fashion house since 1983″.
Known as and for: “Fashion Designer: little black dress, Chanel suit, Chanel jacket”.

 
She started wearing bell-bottoms, glamorized pea jackets, and showed women of the world the “path to pants”.
Multiple strands jewelries and instantly recognizable accessories, menswear tailored for women, quilted pockets and purses, Chanel No. 5 perfume, comfortable clothes: it’s all Chanel.

 
Did she have many friends? She certainly was a very influential person at the height of her popularity and had many people around her, but once she said: “My friends, there are no friends.”  Was it what she thought, or just something intriguing to say? Who knows…

 
You may find more quotes from her here: Women History.

 
She was an exceptionally good (creating a brand) businesswoman and a equally good, talented designer. She had numerous questionable and bad traits about her as well. Nevertheless, she is remembered a genius, who changed the fashion and the lifestyle with it in so many ways, that the influence is still continues,  through this day…

 
About Coco Chanel in Wikipedia:

 
Read more about her here and here.

 
Read on coin info at Luxist and at Luxury Launches.

 
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 Update 1 July 8, 2008
If you are interested in buying this purse, you may call the San Francisco’s Chanel Boutique store at (415)981-1550, which sells them for $1,385.00.They are made of a patented leather and come in black, red, blue and gold colors.
 Some time ago I was researching bracelets. Not exactly a jewelry type, but the type, which is more useful on vacation, like having a pocket on a band and also looking good enough to be worn with a dressier clothes. I found a few patents for bracelets, where all of them were described as a tubular form of any material, having a closure of any type and at least one pocket, made of a water absorbent material and basically good and comfortable for exercising. Since nothing special came up, I’ve dropped the search. 
 

Yesterday I got my January issue of “Bazaar” magazine and saw there an incarnation of the bracelet I was looking for. Only in a very unusual form.
 

There was a photo of Lindsay Lohan walking on the street, wearing shorts and sporting her alcohol monitor bracelet near the ankle. Right next to it was a photo of a women’s foot, shod in a beautiful silver-colored shoe, and worn over an ankle, attached to a leather bracelet, a little square purse made of a black patented leather. In an instantly recognizable Chanel style, the purse is small enough to contain a key, a credit card and a few bills.

Here is a text under these two pictures:”Mini Trend. Leave to Karl Lagelfeld to be inspired by the alcohol monitors worn recently by celebs…He paid homage to the “look” by showing pint-sized ankle purses in Chanels spring collection”.
 

In my quest for the information about this new trend, I found many fashion blogs, covering this tiny purses, which come in different colors, even in polka dots and sometimes called “an ankle wallet”. It’s an item featured in Chanel’s Spring Collection.I think, very soon, we’ll see many similar tiny purses offered by other brands.

 
Click on the link to see the anklet purse: style.popcrunch.com

 

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