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- Title
A Pioneer of Women's Liberation.
- Authors
Cvikl, Jerca Legan
- Abstract
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel is a creative icon who has freed the 'new' woman from the millennium of dictated dress codes, stereotypical behaviors and clichéd sexual and status simplification. The little black dress has become synonymous of sophistication, to the femininity she gave the character flavor of relaxation and empowered women with timeless clothing pieces and equipped them with inspiring pieces of jewelry, distinctive decorative accessories and bold fragrances. Since then, with the Chanel fashion women were able to step sovereignly and freely aside of male. Coco resisted the reservation of clothing and decorative pieces and fabrics as exclusively masculine in order to help revolutionary women on their journey to a more a more useful elegance and a more noticeable fatality. Without any doubt she succeeded. She gave the new woman what she could not have before: practicality, youthfulness, timelessness and freedom, which was often scandalous at the time of her creation. But it has paid off with a revolution in the clothing industry and, more importantly, with a historic step in liberating the modern woman.
- Subjects
CHANEL, Coco, 1883-1971; WOMEN'S rights; HUMAN sexuality; CLOTHING industry; DRESS codes; FEMININITY
- Publication
Academicus, 2021, Issue 24, p174
- ISSN
2079-3715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7336/academicus.2021.24.11