5 life lessons from Coco Chanel.
There is a famous story about how the famous couturier Paul Poiret once stopped Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel in the street in Paris, staring scornfully at her shockingly simple skirt, the predecessor of a cult little black dress.
“Who do you wear mourning for, mademoiselle?” was mockingly asked by a man who dressed women in cascades of velvet a la Belle Époque. “For you, monsignor,” followed a humiliating answer.
And indeed, this fragile little woman managed almost alone to invent what is now called modern fashion. Her brilliant style tips and lessons which Coco Chanel has learned from life are below.
Life Lesson 1: “Success is often achieved by those who are not aware of the possibility of failure.”
A friend recently told me, “Coco Chanel did not cook.” What she meant by that was that she focused on what she really loved and what she was good at – creating a luxury brand, leaving the cooking to those who excelled in it.
Life Lesson 2: “I don’t like food that tells about it after you ate it.”
Despite the fact that Chanel often dined with rich and famous representatives of the highest circles of Europe, her tastes were simple when she was left alone in her villa in the French Riviera.
For lunch there were usually baked potatoes or mashed chestnuts. But her chefs were strictly forbidden to use onions. “I don’t like food that tells about it after you ate it,” she said.
Lindy Woodhead, in her book “Paints of War”, describing the picnic organized by Elena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, to which Coco was invited, said that “she had an eccentric taste in food, and couldn’t stand the smell of spicy food. The smell of fried ribs, spicy sauce, onions and spicy beans made her feel bad”.
Life Lesson 3: “Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it’s not luxury.”
The concept of a small black dress was a gift from Coco Chanel to women around the world. “Coco Chanel Fashion is the color that suits you,” she said. Before Chanel, black was considered the color of mourning, but the silhouette she invented, the fabrics she used, such as silk, tulle, lace, length just below the knee, and the fact that this dress slims any figure, made this dress timeless forever.
Life Lesson 4: “Always use the perfume.”
Chanel’s two famous statements speak for themselves: “A woman who does not use perfumes has no future” and “Where should I put my perfume? Wherever you want to be kissed.” Read others Coco Chanel Quotes >>
When a chemist was working for Coco Chanel perfume with synthetic chemicals (aldehydes), it turned out to be nothing like a stable fragrance, which is packed in a square bottle, rather characteristic of men’s perfume and called … Chanel Perfume No.5 – the number that became for Coco happy.
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Life Lesson 5: “In a man’s arms, I don’t want to weigh more than a bird!”
Chanel wasn’t a vegetarian (but it’s safe to say she wouldn’t have eaten a Big Mac, though she’d probably be his most elegantly dressed customer).
She loved champagne, hot chocolate, which she drank at Chez Angelina on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris, cheese and crackers. Every day she tried to eat caviar and drink red wine to stay young and beautiful.
Chanel believed that being in the arms of a man, a woman’s weight should be like that of a bird. At the dusk of her age, Chanel decided that there were too many overweight women in Paris.
“The most important thing is not to eat,” she once told a photographer in a fashion magazine. “I hate to see how much food the French eat.”
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