I genuinely appreciate stories of women who can rise from their tough beginnings in life to show up as the incredible examples of determination, drive, perseverance and purpose. We need these stories to help push us along to become our best! History is sprinkled with such storiesโฆhere are a few I was able to find.
She lived on so many levels. There will always be critics of any story, but I believe you can always find the good in any story. She had true love, heartache, emotional wounds, rejection, abandonment, but she was able to rise from the broken pieces that were her life to create a legacy to be remembered. You have to respect this woman and all she did.
I watched the movie about her lifeโ-Lessons learned from the movie Coco Before Chanel. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds. Her Style: I think one of the greatest things she didโshe gave women freedom from the tortured corset fashions of that era.
She re-created the fashion world into something that women could live in. It was a sad beginning. The familyโwhich eventually included six childrenโlived in poverty while moving throughout the French countryside. After her mother died in , year-old Gabrielle Chanel was sent to a convent-run orphanage in Aubazine.
She wanted independence and created her own life: Coco Chanel began working as a seamstress in her teens, and she opened a small millinery shop in Paris about a decade later, in In she established a boutique in Deauville, France. Her practical, elegant designs attracted influential women, and Chanel was soon heading a thriving couture house. She wanted what power brought, which was independence. Educated at Beaumont College, Berkshire, and then Stonyhurst, Lancashire, Capel was the dashing son of a rich shipping merchant.
