Coco Chanel's Role Model

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud” These words by Coco Chanel are the embodiment of who she was and the values she was known for and is still known for. Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel started her career off in a small and paltry milliner’s shop in France and rose among the ranks to become one of the most renowned fashion designers in history. Her belief in asserting her opinion and making a choice to be who she wanted to be always stood by her. Hence, even more than four decades after her death she is still seen as a hero worthy of emulation by numerous women around the world for she taught them the courage and conviction to be comfortable in their own skin and break the barriers set by the men in their lives and truly

She was the symbol of what a true woman was, someone who was confident in the way she dealt with her world, someone who was in control of her mind as well as her body and someone who walked on a path that she had decided for herself. Hence, she became a role model for women of all ages and economic classes who were aggrieved by the excessive control of the society on their bodies and their person. She throughout her life and even after her death was more famously known as a fashion artist but on a closer look at her life one will find that she was much more than that. She was a keen observer of the human mind and behaviour and in her own way contributed to the freedom of women. Her style and her unabashed fervour in popularising it could clearly be seen as a challenge to men and the society at large. It asked for them to make their move, to try to bring her down and in that process bring down all the women around the world but the strength of her conviction kept all those who would have wanted to contest her ideas at the

Coco was born in quite poor circumstances and was one of five children of her parents. Very early on in her life she lost her mother and was also abandoned by her father. Growing up in an orphanage she struggled all through her childhood and later worked in a bar. She then moved on to the next phase of her life where she fell in love with a young Englishman who ended up marrying someone else and later died in an accident. Even the heartbreak caused by losing the person she truly loved couldn’t hold her back as she still went on her path of innovation. She experienced a major setback during the second world war where her boutiques were shut down due to the Nazi invasion of France and she came under immense public scrutiny because of her relationship with a Nazi officer but she persevered and at the age of seventy made a comeback in fashion and as before gained immense success in her endeavours. Through all of these events in her life she was put down by people all around her, every part of her life was under the public’s eye and any wrong move on her part was heavily criticized but despite all this she kept pushing forth in her life. Through the story of her life one gains inspiration to follow one’s own dreams because life is hard and it may be harder if you assert yourself. For others in their safe shells will from time to time look down on you and laugh when they see