Chanel 2

The Life and Times of Coco Chanel There have been many women of great influence throughout the years, but in the world of fashion there was one above all the rest: Coco Chanel. After years of triumphs and failures, she gracefully stated, ³Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.² Gabrielle ³Coco² Chanel was a great woman …

…a new era. In the history of the twentieth century, simplicity will undoubtedly be the last word in luxury. According to Vogue, ³Chanel is a tradition so strong that today she can hardly compete with the strength of her own aura (Current Biography 3).² It is as though the beautiful people of today are acknowledging their debt to the everlasting elegance of Gabrielle Chanel; a woman so individual she could claim everyone was just like her.