May 2012
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Coco Chanel - the designer who recreated woman
Coco Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was born in Saumur, France in a rather poor family. Her mother dies when she is little, while her father abandons her in an orphanage in Correze where the girl will take her first lessons as seamstress. Here she receives the nickname Coco because she sang a song about a lost dog named Coco, to her colleagues nickname which will became history...
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Giorgio Armani - a complex personality
Giorgio Armani was born on 11th July 1934 in Piacenza, Italy in a poor family. He studied medicine, but the passion for photography he developed led him to work at the magazine “Le Rinascente” fashion department.
From 1961 to 1970 he worked as a designer at the Nino Cerutti fashion house becoming his right hand. At the age of 30, without any studies in the domain he created a fashion line for...
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