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[|Coco Chanel] also known as Gabrielle Bonheur. She is called Coco because a song she would always sing when she was a young girl. She was the top fashion designer in france during the 1920's. Chanel made it clear the that just because she was a women didn't mean could do something different or change the world. She became an innovator to the female form([|women's studies]).

To know where the clothes we wear today came from and how it was invented, and if it's purpose has changed with time.Today you see all kinds of women wearing black dresses with different accessories. The black dress was solely used for period of mourning when it was first invented. But was it to wear at a formal party or for a person’s funeral? Where did the little black dress come from? It was an innovation from Coco Chanel in the 1920’s.

Chanel wanted to do something different for women. Make them stand out from the ordinary and make their clothes more comfortable. She always said "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different"(Picardie87). Thats just what she did,of course it took her some time to do, but she got it done. With very hard work and moving place to place she made her different fashion a big part for women in her time.

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