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這是GiGi在學校寫的簡短Academic Essay,

英語不好哇！多多指教了！

Course title:

An Introduction to Academic Study & Analysis for Speakers of English as a Second Language

The task name and a title relevant to submission: 

Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel is a one of the most influential famous fashion designer who I researching for. The reason why I chose this topic is I am fond of fashion design and interested in learning from other designers. I have taken notes while viewing my topic and picking up articles from books and using some of excerpts from web pages for my research. I went to library to read some books and monograph of Coco Chanel and taking notes. Finally I have found out lots of information of Coco Chanel from books and web pages, for instance, I knew more about Coco Chanel’s career and her personal life and learn more about her successful fashion innovations. The result is a book that proves how her life played out in her style and how her style.

Obviously, I think I have accomplished the task as I have chosen the right topic as required and tried to find information from as wide a range of source as possible. I have presented over two based sources of differing types, for example, notes taken and books excerpts and web pages. As well as I have taken some images from internet and books and described them and given the reason of why it is relevant to my research. Lastly, I have given a bibliography of all the sources I have looked at in my research. I would try to use more sources for my research with more time such as using newspaper and magazine and visiting exhibition and gallery, having more sketches and notes.

Text-based sources

“Chanel’s styles have a sensuality that knows no time, an ease that is still desirable, and a minimalism that is still the ball mark of good design. Her look was individual, her outlook universal. She made fashion up-to-the-minute, yet created clothes that were entirely timeless. ‘Fashion changes but style endures,’ she said. She was feminine yet never fussy, seductive yet never dull. Alluring, enduring, independent and self-assured, Chanel was, and still is, the embodiment of style in the twentieth century.”[1]

The reason that I have taken this excerpt from “Chanel: Her style and Her life” is this excerpt refers to her own sense of style and she is an extraordinary designer. Her clothes are timeless, her name is famous. She had a vision that evolved into the House of Chanel. The study of Coco Chanel has brought a realization of the benefits of sheer determination, hard work and an idea.

“It is fitting, somehow, that Chanel was often photographed holding a cigarette or standing in front of her famous Art Deco wall of mirrors. Fashion tends to involve a good dose of smoke and mirrors, so it should come as no surprise that Gabrielle Chanel's version of her life involved a multitude of lies, inventions, cover-ups and revisions. But as Prada said to me: ‘She was really a genius. It's hard to pin down exactly why, but it has something to do with her wanting to be different and wanting to be independent.’”[2]

The reason why I used this excerpt is I was wandering why Coco Chanel always photographed holding a cigarette and this excerpt give me the answer. She was determined to break the old formulas and invent a way of expressing herself.

“Chanel is considered the most significant designer of the 20th century. She introduced the little black dress, sweater sets, the pleated skirt, triangular scarves, and fake pearl necklaces; she pioneered the use of knit jersey as a fashion fabric; and she produced the first artificial suntan lotion. She manufactured her own perfume, which she called Chanel No. 5, after her lucky number. Chanel was also famous for changing black from a color of mourning to a color of elegance. It is said that Coco Chanel knew what women wanted to wear before they knew it themselves.”[3]

Owing to have more knowledge of Coco Chanel’s fashion innovations, I have picked up this paragraph from web page. It undoubtedly says Chanel's innovations changed women's lives forever and her style is a symbol of traditional elegance.

Visual sources

This image is from “Coco – The life and loves of Gabrielle Chanel”[4]. This picture of white satin was sketched by Chanel in 1931. It plainly shows elegance with simple lines. The woman holding a cigarette in the picture is a symbol of Coco’s style. Chanel minimized details, and so her garments got the simple noble spell.

This image shows Coco wearing the remarkable quilted evening dress at a ball given by Comte Etienne de Beaumont in 1935. Coco is a best model of herself and she loved photographers and make use of them to communicate her fashion.

I have picked up this image[5] from internet. It is ‘The Chanel Classic Bottle No.5: the most treasured name in perfume’. Perfume is an important element in Coco’s style. With a reputation as one of the world's most sophisticated, elegant fragrances, Chanel No. 5 has been known for years as the epitome of luxury, in keeping with Chanel's fashion vision of simple elegance. Marilyn Monroe made Chanel No. 5 famous when she was asked what she wore when she was in bed. Her coquettish answer was simply a dab of No. 5. Chanel No. 5 doesn’t smell sweet, it doesn’t smell like flowers, it isn’t forcing. The smell is as androgynous as Coco’s style.

Coco Chanel is supposed to be the inventor of fashion jewelry. This gorgeous wide cuff bracelet from 1930 made of ivory coloured lacquered metal inlaid with faceted crystals in different colours. It is absolutely stunning.

Bibliography

Books:

Janet Wallach,                                  “Chanel – Her style and her life”

France Kennett,                               “Coco – The life and loves of Gabrielle Chanel”

Alice Mackrell,                                 “fashion designs – Coco Chanel”

Francois Baudot,                              “fashion memoir – Chanel”

Amy de la Haye, Shelley Tobin,        “Chanel- the couturiere at work”

Edmonde Charles-Roux,                  “Chanel and her world”

Axel Madsen; Paperback,                “Chanel: A Woman of Her Own”

Melissa Richards,                             “Chanel: Key Collections”

Tom Tierney,                                    “Chanel Fashion Review Paper Dolls in Full

                             Color”

Patrick Mauries, Tom Eckerle,          “Jewelry by Chanel (Jewelry by Chanel)”

FRANCOIS BAUDOT,                  “Chanel (The Universe of Fashion)”

                                                        “Chanel ouverture pour la mode a Marseille”

Vintage treasure,              “The little black dress”

Web pages:

http://www.chanel.com/

http://www.wc.pdx.edu/chanel/chanel.html

Coco Chanel, “Fashion passes; style remains.”

http://www.1earthmedia.com/photography/coco_chanel.htm

http://www.webwombat.com.au/lifestyle/fashion_beauty/coco.htm

http://web.syr.edu/~slrodger/ret181/Coco.htm

Coco Chanel: Innovator and Icon

http://www.coololdstuff.com/coco.html

Biography of coco chanel

http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/new_site/biography.php?id=307&showgroup=

http://www.angelfire.com/ne/lliegirls/chanel.html

Coco Chanel Quotes

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/coco_chanel.html

The Influence of Coco Chanel

http://www.richeast.org/htwm/CHANEL/CC.HTML