"If you can't find the right partner for you all your life/ Don't be upset, don't be depressed/In the dark, there will be a greater mission waiting for you - God will definitely give you special talents to focus on your strengths / Make a career that is more beneficial to all mankind / Marriage will make you smaller / So, when you are single, please cherish, use your greatest energy / A person, still a wonderful life" - Coco Chanel
In fact, Chanel is not that no one likes, but that she is not willing to give up herself for love. She said:
"The most dangerous game in the world is to fall in love with a genius man and be submerged in his world. This is the stupidest tragedy for a woman."
In 1883.
Chanel was born in a small rural town in France. Her fate was tragic at an early age, her mother died early, and her father abandoned her in an orphanage.
The presence of his father had the first enlightening effect on Chanel's later success. The reason why Chanel later chose the clothing and hat industry when she started her business was because her father was a small mobile trader who sold clothes.
Life in the orphanage was lonely and poor, and the only consolation was the books of relatives. Chanel was very fond of reading, and often went to a sister's house to read books.
A little older, enter the church school. Here, she learned the techniques related to tailoring, and after graduation, she became a female tailor.
It can be seen from the very developed tailoring industry in France at that time that France at that time had entered the era of consumption, the social class was relatively solidified, the middle and upper classes monopolized resources and wealth, coveted pleasure, and the small and middle class society struggled to survive by serving their hedonistic life.
Chanel did not want to live at the bottom of society all the time, she wanted to live in high society
life.
So she worked as a tailor during the day and went to the bar to sing at night. The main purpose of going to the bar to sing is not to make money, but to meet rich people and then achieve cross-class.
That's when the name "Coco Chanel" came. The residency made her ask for mercy and met Aetien Balesson, the prodigal officer of high society, who had a profound impact on Chanel's life.
Because of Chanel's outstanding temperament and singing voice, Etienne Palersson fell in love with her at first sight. He and Chanel had a dewy affair and brought her back to his estate.
Chanel, who was not yet twenty years old, was in her teenage years and had a perfect vision of love with a girlish heart. She thought that the man in front of her was a man who could give her favor, wealth, and exclusive love.
When she entered his manor, she suddenly realized that a man who could easily take a singer home must have taken countless "singers" home before.
In Aetien Balesson's manor, there were many for him to have fun with
Woman.
In a woman's life, the first man has a very great influence on her, which will directly become the background of her future view of love. If she meets a good person, she will be brave in love, and if she meets a prodigal son, she will have a hatred of men subconsciously.
Chanel, though she followed Etienne Palerson into high society, soon grew tired of such an empty and uninhibited life.
After the death of the girl's heart, it directly laid her feminist ideas.
Chanel was born a "Cinderella", and when she was a child, she also longed for crystal shoes, and after passing through Etienne Palerson, she wanted to be the king of her own world.
She thought about entrepreneurship.
She doesn't want to be reduced to a plaything in the male world like other beautiful girls. Therefore, she wanted to use the wealth and resources of Etienne Palerson to achieve herself, and this love experience also became her later inspiration for the design of clothes and hats, simple, stylish, and liberating women.
The early twentieth century was a time of intense feminism.
Because of the early preparation, and because the war caused many men to die on the battlefield, in the industrial age, more and more women took to work.
"At that time, women's formal wear has always been a corset with tight steel bars on the upper body, the purpose of design is to outline the graceful curves of women, the bottom is a long mop skirt with a skeleton, and the extensive use of lace edges shows the gentleness and cuteness of women."
But girls are tired of such clothing, which is also a product of male power. Chanel, after the failed relationship, saw the reality that in the patriarchal era women could not achieve true happiness in marriage, because men treated women as playthings. She knew that most women lived in repression like her, wanting rights and respect.
She saw business opportunities in the tide of the times and the rebellion of the masses. With the support of Aétien Palersson, Chanel opened her first store. Thanks to Etienne Palersson's network of contacts and her pioneering designs, she was a great success.
After success, she made a bold decision to move her shop to rue Cambon(The Cummin neighborhood) and then began to venture into haute couture clothing.
Since then, it has made great progress, with amazing sales and successful counterattacks.
Looking at Chanel's design aesthetics, feminism is at the heart of her success. After entering the field of clothing, there are still classic products: black miniskirts, collared jumpers, women's pants, plaid chain bags, etc. have been introduced.
The core philosophy of these products is in line with feminist freedom, equality, respect, etc
thought.
If Aetian Palerson was Chanel's doom and well-being when she was not successful, then what kind of love experience will she have after her great success?
In fact, Chanel's life is very lucky, and this luck is also reflected in her love. Because she met a man who "protected her dreams" in a patriarchal society.
Capel is a friend of Aetian Palerson and a fan of Chanel's career. When Chanel said she wanted to open a shop, Did Etienne Palerson not support her, or reluctantly agreed to it after Capel's persuasion.
Capel and Etienne Palersson are two completely different men. Capel He admires a woman when not only seeing each other's youthful beauty, but also seeing each other's different talents and ideas, and is willing to achieve each other.
When Chanel opened her second store, Aétien Palerson was reluctant to support her, and it was Capel who helped her, and he was the cornerstone of Chanel's career.
Unfortunately, the two had a short relationship, and while Chanel was gradually reaching the peak, Capel died in a car accident. The little black dress was designed by Chanel to honor him.
After losing Capel, although her career reached its peak, she fell into loneliness and pain. Until he met the talented Russian composer Stravinsky.
Stravinsky became the founder of modern art by writing the ballet The Rite of Spring. Since both were avant-gardes, love was bred by like-mindedness and mutual appreciation.
But it was a secret extramarital affair.
Fate is a reincarnation. At this time, Chanel has successfully entered high society, but Stravinsky is poor, chanel, like Capel who saved herself many years ago, settled Stravinsky,
He took his family into his mansion and funded Stravinsky to continue his work.
Most of the results of extramarital love affairs are to leave. Separated from Stravinsky, her career was also interrupted. Due to World War II, she had to close her store.
At this time she fell in love with a Nazi officer, and the Nazi Party sent her to negotiate with the British to end the war, because she was a friend of Churchill's.
After the war, she was spared from prison because she was a friend of Churchill's, and lived in seclusion with her officers in Switzerland. In 1954.
Chanel returned to France and returned to her old business.
The French still love her. Her design continues the previous simple, free style, in addition, there are new innovations on this basis, short thick coats, flared pants, etc. are her works of this period.
Since then, the CHANEL brand has been involved in many fields, selling well in many countries and has been at the forefront of fashion.
After returning to France, Chanel is no longer young, but there are still many men who love her. In his fifties, he was still in love with a male model who was 30 years younger than himself.
On January 10, 1971, Chanel died at the age of 88 in the hotel at the Ritz Hotel in Paris. But she did what she said:
"May my legend remain in the hearts of the world forever, forever as bright as new"
Many people now look back on Chanel's life with a look of regret, because although she has a successful career, she is not married.
Happiness is actually not related to love and marriage, not unmarried women are not happy, married women are happy, this is the world's most wrong judgment of women, but also the biggest misunderstanding of women themselves about life.
True belonging is self-actualization,
True happiness is on the road to self-actualization.