Pearl Jewelry Designs Biography
Source(google.com.pk)Gabriel Bonheur Chanel (Coco) was born in 1883. Her mother Jeanne contracted pneumonia and died. Coco was then twelve years old.After her death, her father abandons her and her sister in the largest orphanage of the region , a convent in Aubazine.
When Coco reached 18 years of age, she left the convent and moved to the Notre Dame boarding school in Moulins. She started working in Moulins as a shop girl with a local milliner. Coco begins decorating simple straw and felt hats and creates beautiful and unusual designs, captivating the attention and admiration of the women that attended the races at Lonchamp. Soon after, they begin to ask her to custom-design hats for them that would complement their afternoon outfits.
Between 1912 and 1914 Coco opens a millinery store “Chanel Modes,” in Paris and another in Deauville, where she made and sold hats, simple loose blouses and chemises. In 1916, Coco begins to make garments from jersey, a fabric previously used only for underwear. In 1918, Chanel was producing cardigans and twinsets. She adapted men’s sweaters and showed them worn over plain, straight skirts. Coco eliminates the frills and excesses of women’s couture, in favor of styles that offered comfort, maneuverability and practical use. Chanel’s wartime designs featured hems that rose a few inches above the ankles, and a long sleek outline which was all the more comfortable for the hospital volunteer or the war production worker. By eliminating the “corset, Coco “let go” of the waist line.
Coco launches her perfume Chanel No. 5 in the 1920s. She employs a great chemist named Ernest Beaux, who after mixing one hundred and twenty-eight ingredients finally comes out with the fragrance that she approves. Chanel No. 5 becomes a key source of Coco’s fortune.
From 1926 to 1931, Coco’s designs develop an English style. She makes fashion out of the black sleeved waistcoat, its front striped with the Ducal colors, and of the beret now worn by elegant women pulled down flush with the eyelids, idea that she gets from the sailors on the Westminster Yacht, the “Cutty Sark” owned by the Duke. She also introduces the wide-legged pants for women, based on sailors’ bell-bottoms, which she called “yachting pants”. They were followed two years later by wide, generously cut beach pajamas. The creation of the pants and her sportswear fashion is probably the biggest and most extraordinary innovation brought about by Chanel.
Coco Chanel begins to wear jewelry that is meant for the evening, with her daytime outfits, like her long string of pearls. She embraces jewelry and makes it “costume jewelry”. Her couture house produces colorful necklaces, bracelets, lapel pins and earrings crafted from glass beads. She commissions Duc Fullco de Verdura to design and elaborate custom jewelry using fake and semi-precious stones in ostentatious settings. The most famous of Verdura’s jewelry must be his enameled and jeweled cuffs with Maltese cross motifs. These have proved to be so popular that they are still made and sold in Chanel boutiques to this day, although the original designs are recognizable as such and are very hard to find at almost any price. Coco made it “chic” to wear fake jewelry.
Chanel’s jewelry from the 1920s usually consisted of ropes of pearls with interspersed pate de verre stones, sometimes with crosses hanging from them. She also made strands of pearls and colored glass for wearing with colored glass and pearl cuffs and bracelets. In 1929, Coco opened a boutique in her Paris salon to sell accessories, such as bags, belts, scarves and jewelry.
The 1930s saw gilded jewels, chains, cuffs, and buttons in an almost militaristic style. It was around this time that Chanel and the first large couturiers started to produce lines of costume jewelry to accompany their clothing, a trend continued by Christian Dior among others. It is probably due to this development that Chanel is credited with the “invention” of modern costume jewelry. Many of the designs were simply copies of her real jewelry, which was either given to her or worn by her high status friends and clients.
After World War II, strands of opera length pearls and colored glass were once again sold, but this time the fashion was to wear not just one but many. In the 1950s Chanel collaborated with Robert Goossens, who was a very skilled metal worker, and trained goldsmith. Goossens produced some of Chanel’s most important jewelry, including the well known barrettes set with a faux pearl or glass stone and the triple ring earrings in gilded metal.
When one thinks of Chanel jewelry there is one other name that immediately springs to mind, and that is of Maison Gripoix. Maison Gripoix perfected a method of pouring glass into slender brass frames to create their famous pate de verre. The resulting look was that of large, sumptuous, natural precious stones set in a Moghul or even the Renaissance style. Goossens and Gripoix were at the forefront of what is sometimes called bijoux de couture; jewelry designed to complement a certain outfit, which represented the ultimate in elegance in the first half of the 20th Century.
The height of the 1980’s saw some of the most ostentatious jewelry produced by the Chanel design house. Chanel had been producing sautoirs (opera length strands of pearls and chains) since the beginning, and they are a trademark of the design house. Where the earlier examples were almost entirely made up of baroque pearls, gilded chain, and pate de verre, other motifs were added over the years. Late examples of the sautoir include the coin and double “C” motif created during Karl Lagerfeld’s directorship of the company.
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