01 October 2009
French film "Coco Avant Chanel" Sad Story
The film featured early life of the founder of world's most famous fashion brand, Chanel.
The film started with her life as an orphan and later she became a singer in the bar. She found a patron, a rich peer man but she fell in love with a rich English businessman who later supported her avant-garde fashion business.
It seemed like Chanel was a whore rather than an independent lady who invented very liberated forms of women's clothes.
But she had no choice just like other women in those days. Women did not have rights to vote. Women did not have their own named bank accounts. They had to wear heavy clothes with so many accessaries, long skirts that bottoms should be on the ground.
The film was overall very boring but the message was kind of strong that her successful career came from her painful life experience.
I guess we had to know this side of her story to know life is not easy. The below photo is what I accidentally found on the street in Tokyo's shopping district. The lady in the photo secretly depicted Chanel's painful life experience before she got successful career.
