Style Lessons by Irina Tirdea

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Coco Chanel used to say: "Fashion changes, but style remains."

This is my advice, dear fashionistas: follow fashion, but find your style ...! Fashion is important to our appearance, but we must look good in the clothes we wear.

Furthermore, we must be careful in the choices according to the occasions, the location, the events in which we participate.

The most important thing is how do we wear it?

The right attitude is elegance! with style ...!

After the error of the Second World War in Europe the process of reconstruction begins.

The 1950s represents a period of rebirth ... especially for women. The elegant and refined woman, after hard years in which she has taken the place of men in factories and offices, resumes her place with more force than ever. As a matter of comfort and practicality, the woman had to masculinize the image of herself, simplify it, losing, at least for the moment, her curves and partly also her femininity.

The fashion of the 50s has the taste of elegance and simplicity, all mixed with joy. A full skirt, a colored belt that highlights the waist, a white shirt and a further touch of color given by an elegantly tied neck scarf were enough to make this era immortal.

To complete the outfit, let's remember the cat eye model glasses, undoubtedly fundamental accessories. Let's not forget, however, that the 1950s are influenced by television and cinema made in the USA: for the first time in history, fashion also comes from below so that young people are able to create a new lifestyle and consequently come out of anonymity. . Not for nothing is this the decade of rock'n'roll, blue jeans, t-shirts and pin-ups.

The leather jacket becomes an indispensable must have in men's fashion. As young women begin to reveal their femininity through the bikini.

In our days fashion is a mix of innovation, research, technology and the past.

It is easy to go back in time through our outfits. But if I were to imagine a world that is joyful, youthful and simple at the same time, I would see him dressed as a pin-up. (IRIS)

Fashion is a way of living, thinking and being linked to an era or a society, and is by its very essence ephemeral, fleeting, fleeting.

Here are some Coco Chanel style rules, launched decades ago, but which are still valid today.

1. "Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not a luxury" Beyond the aesthetic side, the functionality of the garments you wear is also important. Don't wear a haute cooking dress, very expensive, if you don't feel well when you wear it. The cut of the clothes and their style must be to your pleasure; not everything that is new, trendy or expensive is also suitable for you! Coco Chanel is the first designer who promoted the use of trousers for women and introduced them in her collections, offering women a very important gift: freedom of movement. The shoulder bag with chain was also created with the same purpose.

2. "It's a lack of good taste, to go with a couple of million hanging from the colo, just because you're rich." Coco Chanel wore authentic jewels, pearls and diamonds, along with semi-precious materials, even though she had no trouble affording the more expensive jewels. A woman is worth more than the price of clothes and her accessories, and can leave a good impression even more, when she manages to make original combinations, than following the latest fashion trends.

3. "Simplicity is the key to elegance." One of the most precious legacies of the most revolutionary designer in the modern world, Coco Chanel, is “Little Black Dress” - the little black dress. Every woman should have in her wardrobe the simple black dress - it's the MUST - which can be worn at any time of day, every day of the week, without problems. According to the matching accessories, you will be able to create the ideal look for any event!

4. "Fashion passes, but style remains!" Coco Chanel's creations are timeless: LBD - little black dress, universal jacket, quilt bag, Chanel n ° 5 perfume, masculine style look and many others. Beyond changing fashion, the designer affirmed that we have to find our own style. This guarantees a flawless look for all ages and a woman's success.

5. “The bravest act is to think for yourself! And this must be noted. " What would have happened if the designer Chanel had created clothing in the spirit of the time (war, strict rules in a male chauvinist world), instead of innovating? I wonder how long it would take for women to make the transition from skirt to pants, from aesthetic to functionality? Follow Coco's example, dare to stand out in your way of being, not in conformity! The designer also said: "if you are born without wings, do nothing to stop the growth!".

Think carefully which of the rules inherited from the Coco Style, feel that it best represents you and use them with Style!

FASHION GUIDE MANUAL

Either you are a work of art or you wear it.
(Oscar Wilde)

Each generation laughs at old fashions, but religiously follows new ones.
(Henry David Thoreau)

- What do you say, a diamond?
- Just give me a giant closet!
(Mr. Big and Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and The City)

The most beautiful dress a woman can dress are the arms of the man she loves. But, for those who don't have the chance to find this happiness, I am here.
(Yves Saint Laurent)

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not fashion.
(Coco Chanel)

Blessed be fashion that keeps us fickle and light, even when we would like to be profound.
(Erica Jong)

Fashion is not something that exists only in clothes. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, our way of life, what is happening.
(Coco Chanel)

Fashion must be consumed immediately. The best that can happen to a suit is to be worn. Not to be exhibited in a museum.
(Karl Lagerfeld)

Try it! Go for it! More is more. What could possibly happen to you in the end that is so terrible? There is no fashion police ready to arrest you.
(Iris Apfel)

A dress should be tight enough to show that you are a woman and soft enough to prove that you are a lady.
(Edith Head)

Fashion evolves under the impulse of a desire and changes as a result of a rejection. Saturation leads fashion to throw away what until recently adored. Since its profound reason is the desire to please and to attract, its attraction certainly cannot come from uniformity, which is the mother of boredom.
(Christian Dior)

Fools invent fashions and wise men follow them.
(Anonymous)

Fashion is made to go out of style.
(Coco Chanel)

You can get everything you if you're dressed up for it
(Edit Head)

Fools invent fashions and wise men follow them.
(Anonymous)

Fashion is made to go out of style.
(Coco Chanel)

You can get everything you if you're dressed up for it
(Edit Head)

Women usually love what they buy, but they hate two-thirds of what's in their closets.
(Mignon McLaughlin)

Rather forgive a bad foot than bad socks.
(Karl Kraus)

A man can wear what he wants, it will always remain a woman's accessory.
(Coco Chanel)

Foolish women follow fashion, pretentious women exaggerate; but women of good taste come to terms with it.
(Émilie du Châtelet)

Fashion passes style remains.
(Coco Chanel)

The cardinal sin is not being dressed badly, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place
(Edit Head)

Elegance is not being noticed, but being remembered.
(Giorgio Armani)

I personally depend on Givenchy as American women depend on their psychiatrist.
(Audrey Hepburn)

If a woman is badly dressed, the dress is noticeable. If she is impeccably dressed, the woman is noticeable.
(Coco Chanel)

God made the woman and the tailors made the woman.
(Pitigrilli)

Women follow fashion for men to follow.
(Anonymous)

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
(Marilyn Monroe)

"Victoria Albert Museum". When I arrive at the room that houses the history of fashion, I become rigorous and scientific. I spend more time there than in any other room. But then clothes and shoes end and the statues and all that junk in the showcases start again.
(Sophie Kinsella, I love shopping)

Style is the dress of thoughts, and a well-dressed thought like a well-dressed man looks much better.
(Lord Chesterfield)

The changing of fashions is the tax that the industry of the poor imposes on the vanity of the rich.
(Nicolas de Chamfort)

Fashion determines the price of goods and the value of virtues.
(Anonymous)

Put on a trench coat and you'll feel like Audrey Hepburn strolling around Paris.
(Michael Kors)

The dress must not hang on the body, but follow its lines. It must accompany the wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.
(Madeleine Vionnet)

I don't do fashion, I am fashion.
(Coco Chanel)

Fashion is refinement that runs in the face of vulgarity and fears of being surpassed.
(William Hazlitt)

Fashion is feminine, therefore capricious.
(KJ Weber)

Fashion is neither moral nor immoral, but it is made to raise morale.
(Karl Lagerfeld)

All women's clothes, in every age and country, are but variations on the eternal struggle between the desire to be dressed and the unconfessed desire to undress.
(Lin Yutang)

High fashion allows women to rediscover a silhouette that age has made them lose.