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| Incredible true life story of fashion icon Coco Chanel WHENa woman today pulls on a pair of trousers or wears a suit jacket, she can thank Coco Chanel that she s not trussed up in a corset. Mademoiselle Chanel was the fashion goddess who helped to deliver women from the evil of restrictive clothes and she is as relevant today as she ever was. She famously declared: "I gave women a sense of freedom; I gave them back their bodies: bodies that were drenched in sweat due to fashion s finery, lace, corsets, underclothes, padding." The exquisite pieces which carry the legendary double C logo adorn the pampered bodies of the rich but modern women, regardless of wealth, share in Coco s legacy. This year, two films and a book are set to spark an explosion of interest in the person who lay behind the icon. Chanel was a woman who went from rags to riches and achieved international fame. But she was also condemned for anti Semitism and earned the hatred of many for her links to the occupying Nazis during World War II. Coco Before Chanel (Coco Avant Chanel), which explores the couturier s early life and the men who influenced it, is out this month, starring Audrey Tautou. Tautou (of Amelie fame) is the image of Chanel, from her tiny frame to the arch of her eyebrows, the black button eyes and the steel that clearly lies at her core. And she has ncaa replica jerseys grown to admire Chanel, seeing her as a pioneer. She said: "What makes her exceptional is that she was a woman of the moment. "She was a woman who was intelligent, strong, courageous, but especially a woman who wanted to be free and independent. At the time that was an idea no one knew could exist. "She refused to let ncaa basketball jerseys for sale herself be closed off by social conventions and she was almost a rebel. "She was a feminist ahead of her time and that s why in fashion, she freed women through her talent. " Chanel was one of the key influences of the flapper movement, when women emerging from the restraints of World War I had a taste for liberation. They had the vote and they wanted to not only drink, smoke, and have sex but also to dress for themselves rather than pander to the tastes of men. Chanel said: "Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." The biggest change she introduced was to was to make clothes more masculine and Buckeyes 5 Braxton Miller Black Stitched NCAA Jersey more comfortable. She used male motifs such as sailor outfits and mechanic s dungarees as inspirations for her fashions. She said: "Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury." In Chanel s famous words, she "let go of the waistline" and came up with a style that has endured. It is believed she came up with the flapper look when she put on an oversized man s sweater and tied the waist with a scarf. After being seen in it in public, she sold 10 of the outfits. The trademark of her fashions was simplicity but the woman herself was complex. Tautou said: "She was full of contradictions. "And she told so many lies about her past, huge, enormous lies, so that you can only understand her life little by little." Chanel s first lie was about her upbringing claiming that her father had gone off to America to make his fortune and she was brought up by a couple of spinster aunts. She once said: "I invented my life because I didn t like my life." She was born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel on August 19 1883 to travelling salesman Albert Chanel and Jeanne Devolle, who died of TB when her daughter was very young.
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