ON STYLE

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO COCO CHANEL.

" A Girl should be two things: Classy and Fabulous"

There is an early picture of Gabrielle Chanel taken in a Park in Vichy, France. Gabriel is twenty-three, standing beside her favorite aunt, Adrienne, only a frew years older. I am thrilled to report that the woman Giorgio Armani called " The most elegant woman who's ever lived" was not a classic beauty. She who was not yet known as Coco had a thicket of dark hair, black eyes and a wide pirate mouth. She looked like the girl at school who conned you into breaking the rules with her, then let you take all the blame. Both the writer Colette and Diana Vreeland ( editor of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue) thought she looke like a bull. Perhaps back then bulls, like closets and serving sizes, were much smaller; Chanel was scampish, lithe and agile. Vreeland, remembering Chanel at fifty would say, " She was bright, dark gold color- wide face, with snorting nose, just like a little bull, deep Dubonnet-red cheeks"

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"There is time for work, and time for love that leaves no other 
time"
If a genie popped out of a lamp offered me one wish (down frome three, times are tough all over), it would be to spend my days the way Chanel did. In my extensive research* there is no mention of her ever having shopped,cooked, cleaned, or argued with a laundress( she had someone else to argue with the laundress for her) Someone else wrote out the bills, had the Rolls serviced, and fed the dogs. There is no evidence that she did anything aside from boar hunting ,fly-fishing, or yachting off to the Cote d'Azur with her lovers, or working on her collecions year in, years out, with the stamina of a cattle dog.
To work as Chanel worked required the schedule of a peasant not a socialite.She was never bowled over by the frivolities of society. In the everning she liked to stay in and get to bed early** Her solution to being seen around fashionable Paris was to befriend well-heeled beauties who she would dress in her finest pieces and send out the top restaurants and best parties. They were the unofficial emissaries of Chanel. She understood that sheers hucksterism was never the way to gain the attention of the ruling class. It was to tacky. Better to have someone else talking about you.
This is just a peak of whats coming every morning in my blog. Fashion talk for fashionistas everywhere; those who love to read about the fashion legacy that continues to inspire women all over the world.

Karina Karina" Butterfly can fly"