March is Women's History Month

This month, I will be posting

an article and free images of

   31 Historical Women

that have changed

the way women live, work, and feel

about the world we live in today!  

These Women will inspire you, touch your heart,

 and motivate you to realize that your dreams

arethe most important part of who you are! 

Their powerful influence on

our lives will forever remain

as a constant reminder of

what we can achieve through our

own devotion to ourselves

:and the influence our

actions  have on others.

All of these women have

one thing in common:

Their motto for success?

IMPACT ONE LIFE,AS MANY AS YOU CAN,

EVERYDAY,

 UNTIL THERE ARE NO MORE DAYS!

  

Please enjoy the articles and images and

I hope you will be encouraged and uplifted

by the telling of their courageous lives

and their stubborn committment to follow their dreams,

 not just for themselves but for all womankind alike!   

***PLEASE NOTE***

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***If I use any of my own art work

along with a post,

 please do not copy it

for your own personal use.

COCO CHANEL

This is an entry of my art work

that I posted for a Soartful Challenge!

Theme: Little Black Dress

Coco Chanel was unique in revolutionizing the

fashion industry with dress reformation

and in providing emanciaption of women!

She was known, worldwide, 

for the little black dress

and the Chanel Suit.

Both items became a

Fashion Hallmark that is still

worn in the fashion world today!

The House of Chanel, the Parisian Fashion House,

is the most chic in Haute Couture  in the world!

Time included her in their prestigious list of

 The Top 100 Influential People of the 20th Century!

Coco Chanel

She has a rags to riches story

but her success is due to her

strong will and determination to see her

love of creating fashion as a force

to change the way  women dressed.

 And in doing so, she would change the way 

 women would think about themselves, 

not as just "a woman", but a human being ,

free to also dream and achieve

 the same success as Coco had achieved!

Coco Chanel had three set backs that 

could have kept her from ever aspiring to

making her dreams become a reality!

 Had she not had the sheer strength

of will and determination,

she would never have had the

 motivation to overcome the obstacles

that had been place before her!

 She grew up poor and had a very deprived chldhood.

When she was only 12 years old,
her Mother died of Tuberculosis and she

was immediately shipped off to an orphanage,

where she was to live until she turned 18. 

She was at that tender age where she
could have drowned  in her sorrow and despair
but instead, she learned to sew from the

Nuns that served the orphange. She became a very

accomplished seamtress, thus paving the way for her

 future success in the fashion business.  

 Instead of wallowing in self pity, 

she took a terrible situation and turned it into

something worthwhile to benefit herself.

A model wearing one of the hats

 designed by Coco Chanel

In 1913, she sat up her first shop in Paris and had a

few very influential women of the Paris Society

buying the hats that she had begun to design.

 Even with the clientel she had buying from her,

sadly,  the shop went out of business

and she had to sell all of her assets

to pay her outstanding bills..

 

She could have let this set back finish her

career in fashion but once again, she turned a

terrible situation around to her favor! 

She waited until she had more funds and 

when the time was right, she re-opened the shop,

this time to begin designing clothes for women!

Never letting discouragement take

hold of her ambition, she worked so hard that

 by the time WWI began, she had just

opened her third shop and was a significant factor

 in the influence of how women were begining to

view the fashion of their day! 

She was exiled from Paris during WWII

becasue she was accused of being a spy. 

 She left her designing business

and didn't return for 15 years. 

In 1954, she returned to Paris and

designed her best collection to date!

The Chanel Suit became an

instant hit in the fashion world 

and Coco Chanel regained her reputation as the

single most influential woman in the

fashion industry of the 20th century! 

She could have stayed in exile for the rest of her life

but again, her stubborn will to succed and her

ambition to follow her dreams to their success,

 led her back into the fashioin world once again.

She was 71 years old by then and

still very determined to succeed,

no matter the obstacle,  no matter the cost!

She would not allow anything to

  ever stand in her way again!

****Famous Quotes***

--There is only one Chanel

 --In order to be irreplaceable,

one must always be different.

--Elegance does not consist

in putting on a new dress.

--How many cares one loses when one decides

not to be something but to be someone.

--Don't spend time beating on a wall,

hoping to transform it into a door.

--Success is often achieved by those

who don't think that failure is inevitable.

--The most courageous act is

still to think for yourself. Aloud.

If you were born without wings,

do everything you can to grow some.

***Credits***

3 free images :
House of Chanel
Coco Chanel
Model wearing Chanel Hat
courtesy of the

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel