These two famous and outstanding figures in fashion are coming from different backgrounds. Chanel was raised in poverty and the feeling of loneliness had never left her. “At the age of six I am already alone. My mother has just died. My father deposits me like a millstone, at the house of my aunts, and leaves immediately for an America from which he will never return. An orphan … ever since then, this words has always paralyzed me with fear; even now I cannot go past a girl’s boarding school and hear people saying ‘they are orphans’, without tears coming to my eyes.” (Morand and Cameron, 2008 p.13) Such hard life experience helped her to become a legend in fashion and developed her taste towards simplicity, elegance and comfort. That also describes why she was so passionate about the black color. In comparison to Coco Chanel Elsa Schiaparelli was born and raised in luxury. Her choice of colors and textures belonged to the environment in which she was raised. “Perhaps she was not so much rejected as considered a nuisance by parents too busy, too self-absorbed, or too emotionally distance to give her the affection she needed.” (Secrest, 2014) Despite the fact that Elsa had both parents she felt herself lonely as well as Coco Chanel who didn’t have anyone. Such strong feeling of loneliness was one of the main factors that pushed Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli to the doors of
These two famous and outstanding figures in fashion are coming from different backgrounds. Chanel was raised in poverty and the feeling of loneliness had never left her. “At the age of six I am already alone. My mother has just died. My father deposits me like a millstone, at the house of my aunts, and leaves immediately for an America from which he will never return. An orphan … ever since then, this words has always paralyzed me with fear; even now I cannot go past a girl’s boarding school and hear people saying ‘they are orphans’, without tears coming to my eyes.” (Morand and Cameron, 2008 p.13) Such hard life experience helped her to become a legend in fashion and developed her taste towards simplicity, elegance and comfort. That also describes why she was so passionate about the black color. In comparison to Coco Chanel Elsa Schiaparelli was born and raised in luxury. Her choice of colors and textures belonged to the environment in which she was raised. “Perhaps she was not so much rejected as considered a nuisance by parents too busy, too self-absorbed, or too emotionally distance to give her the affection she needed.” (Secrest, 2014) Despite the fact that Elsa had both parents she felt herself lonely as well as Coco Chanel who didn’t have anyone. Such strong feeling of loneliness was one of the main factors that pushed Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli to the doors of