1.
What surprised me the most about Gabrielle “Coco”
Channel is how she made Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people
of the 20th century. Normally fashion icon is not the first type of
person that pops into my head when I think of Time magazine, but because of her
iconic Channel No.5 perfume that is still worldwide today and her famed
interlocked-CC monogram that has been used since the 1920s, Ms. Channel is
quite the fashion staple.
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What I most admired about her is her
fearlessness and rather free-spirit. She would hang around whoever she wanted and
date whoever she pleased, despite certain situations going on around her (like
WW1). She would do whatever made her truly happy. I also really admire that she
came from practically nothing (like a lot fo entrepreneurs) and made herself to
be one of the most iconic figures in not only fashion but the rest of the
world, and her legacy still continues today.
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Her mother dies at just the age of 11, and her
and her three sisters were separated from their father and the rest of the
siblings and sent to an orphanage.
2.
She seemed to be very frugal. As well as hard
and strict discipline upon herself. She was also quite skill full at sewing,
which she learned to do while at the orphanage, and this would of course be a
huge contributor to her career as a designer.
3.
One part of the reading that was confusing to me
was how despite the rathe rough childhood and upbringing that she endured after
her mother passed away, she chose to take a different approach when explaining
or talking about it. She would sometimes even lie and talk about how her
upbringing was rather glamourous. There are several times where she would lie
about what decade she was born in or talk about how here father sailed to America
after her mothers death to seek fortune. But these stories are presumed to be
untrue. Which is odd as to why she would lie; she came from such a humble and
ordinary background and truly made something enormous out of herself.
4.
Did you ever thing you would become such a
legend and icon in the fashion industry?
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Did you ever picture people still spending thousands
of dollars on your products almost 100 years after you initially created them.
5.
I personally think at first, creating and sewing
fashion pieces was more of a hobby or fun element to her lifestyle that she
would use to kind of distract herself from the past and what was currently
going on in her life.
