All Hail the Queen: Mademoiselle Coco Chanel
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” -Coco Chanel No “Influential Women Who Changed Fashion History” tribute would be complete without paying homage to the queen bee of them all, Coco Chanel. As we sing her praises, please forgive us if we sound a little giddy and star struck over her unparalleled influence on our industry. In this, we are not alone. In fact, Mademoiselle Coco is the only fashion designer listed on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. Her early childhood and young adulthood is worthy of a Dickens’ novel. Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was born on August 19, 1883 to Eugénie Jeanne Devolle, a laundry woman, in a charity hospital for the poor run by the Sisters of Providence in [...]