Imperishable classic - little black dress
Coco Chanel
 
This dress, which today seems a natural as a natural phenomenon that was invented in the mid-1920 Gabrielle Chanel. The thing is, once regarded as the revolutionary vanguard, today has become an absolute classic. Little black dress to inherit the fate of most Chanel, began as revolutionary, but in the end of life shivshey wardrobe mostly bourgeois world.
 
 Chanel surrounded by myths. Short haircut, which was attributed to her, in fact, invented Paul Poiret. The struggle against the corset also began Poiret, and not she. Many seriously believe that Gabrielle Chanel was the first in the history of fashion designer, forgetting that the Englishman Worth, whose years of wealth and fame in the brilliant era of the Second Empire, created this profession. Only here for a little black dress can not find fault - it is the invention of Coco Chanel, the main nail her great design program.
 
 Little black dress came quite by chance, like all simple and ingenious. However, the reason for the appearance of the subject wardrobe was very unhappy - no reception and no reception, and funeral. As you know, Gabrielle Chanel was a kind and fervent zeal, she had a lot of novels, but married, she never visited. One of the most vivid love stories Chanel is her romance with Playboy Keypelom Boehm, who was married. In 1925, the Battle Keypel crashed on the Cote d'Azur and Chanel herself was almost at death's door after she learned the terrible news. Contemporaries told that she was immediately rushed to the crash site and sat on the sidelines, silently, covering his face with his hands.
 
But the official mourning wear Chanel could not, because Fight Keypel was not married to her. Her mourning for Keypelu and became a little black dress, which was observed all the poisonous light of the French language as an anecdote, incident, misunderstanding. And six months later, all those who laughed at the clothes (and in fact, over the grief), Chanel, ordered it exactly the dress. However, if it had not happened in the life of Chanel this tragic history, it still was destined to invent such a thing. Little black dress is the best reflects the principles of art Chanel. First, it is "pure thing" is the subject of unvarnished, without decoration, without decoration, without ornament. There is only a form - narrow dress with a semicircular cut and long sleeves. Secondly, it is monotonous, one-color thing. There is only black, the most important for Chanel.
 
We note parenthetically that by the end of the life of Chanel was not able to decide what color to her more important - black or white. Each new decade, it changed the black and white, and then vice versa. Only the shape and color as the leader, the main elements. Art Chanel, which once could be considered solely dressmaker, in fact, was closely linked with the goals and objectives of the European classical avant-garde. We know that Chanel was friends with many artists and theatrical figures - Picasso, Cocteau, Diaghilev (the result of such cooperation has become a famous ballet "Blue Express" to the music of Erik Satie, 1926). However, the question in this case should be not only on the personal friendship between an ordinary man (and it certainly was - exactly Chanel buried with his own money Diaghilev), but the interrelation of the arts. Chanel was the one woman who turned out for the force to draw a line under the whole of the old French fashion, which was represented in the first place Poiret.
 
Paul Poiret later many times sharply critical of fashionable Chanel, claiming that women in her little black dress like the poor telegraph. However, to make something equal to the success of a little black dress it, the idol of many generations, the creator of the great costumes, luxurious, expensive and almost theatrical, but could not. Little black dress to the Chanel fashion is the same as "Black Square" by Malevich to the world of fine art. Zero point of reference. The turn of separating the old and new, past and future. Another thing is that the history of life itself Great Mademoiselle was controversial - ardent revolutionaries of 1920-1930-ies in 1950-1960-X, it became a true French burzhuazku, a symbol of the Right Bank of Paris. No and no more sign of the bourgeois, than Chanel. And her little black dress from the original things, called when a stinging ridicule and reproach even in poverty, was the most elegant and classic garment XX century.