"Chanel S.A. is a French independently held business owned by Alain Wertheimer and Gérard Wertheimer, grandsons of Pierre Wertheimer, that was an early organisation companion of the couturière Coco Chanel. Chanel is a high-end company that concentrates on high fashion and also ready-made clothes, high-end products, and also accessories. [3] In her young people, Gabrielle Chanel acquired the nickname Coco from her time as a chanteuse. As a fashion designer, Coco Chanel satisfied females's taste for style in gown, with shirts as well as suits, trousers as well as outfits, as well as jewelry (gemstone as well as bijouterie) of basic style, that replaced the luxurious, over-designed, as well as constrictive clothes as well as accessories of 19th-century fashion. The Chanel item brands have actually been manifested by man and also women style designs, idols and actresses, consisting of Inès de La Fressange, Catherine Deneuve, Carole Bouquet, Vanessa Paradis, Nicole Kidman, Jackie Kennedy, Anna Mouglalis, Audrey Tautou, Keira Knightley, Kristen Stewart, Pharrell Williams, Cara Delevingne, as well as Marilyn Monroe.

Chanel is well known for the perfume No. 5 de Chanel and Chanel Match. Chanel's use jersey material created garments that were comfortable and also cost effective. Chanel transformed style-- high fashion (haute couture) and also everyday fashion (prêt-à-porter)-- by replacing structured-silhouettes, based upon the bodice as well as the bodice, with garments that were practical and at the same time complementary to the woman's number.

In the 1920s, the simple-line designs of Chanel couture made preferred the "" flat-chested"" fashions that were the reverse of the hourglass-figure attained by the fashions of the late 19th century-- the Belle Époque of France (ca. 1890-- 1914), and the British Edwardian period (ca. 1901-- 1919). Chanel made use of colors traditionally associated with maleness in Europe, such as grey as well as navy blue, to represent feminine boldness of character. The garments of the House of Chanel included quilted textile as well as leather trimmings; the quilted construction strengthens the material, the layout, as well as the finish, generating a garment that preserves its kind as well as function while being worn. An instance of such haute couture strategies is the woolen Chanel match-- a knee-length skirt as well as a cardigan-style jacket, trimmed and enhanced with black embroidery as well as gold-coloured buttons. The complementary devices were two-tone pump shoes as well as jewelry, usually a necklace of pearls, and also a natural leather purse."