I love Fashion because it allows people to express their individuality in a way that nothing else does. I am always on the lookout for new ideas that I can infuse into my own style. I get a lot of inspiration from my fashion role models, which include people like Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Coco Chanel.
Coco Chanel became my earliest fashion role model, mostly because of her individuality and structured style. Her influence is still very prominent in fashion today. It was Chanel who saw past the corset and replaced it with comfortable but feminine clothing. She showed that women could wear pants and still look good! Her first designer item to be publicly known for was her little black dress.
She designed this dress using a jersey fabric which was, for its time, stunning. She used pearls, jewels, and lace to turn an ordinary item of clothing into an extraordinary piece of art.
Every designers dream is to create something so stylish it transcends fashion and becomes a classic. The Chanel suit is a fashion icon that continued to live on long after she died. Karl Lagerfeld has reinvented this suit many times and it is still one of the ultimate fashion pieces.
She has truly shaped fashion to what it is today.
