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杰出女性 可可·香奈儿 香奈儿 The House of Chanel: 20世纪最著名的时尚品牌 the most famous fashion name of the 20th century. 奢华和风格的典范 The epitome of luxury and style. 这个标志性品牌背后的女人 Yet the woman behind the iconic brand 却非生于富贵或权贵之家 was not born into wealth or influence. 可可香奈儿的故事堪称灰姑娘的传奇 Coco Chanel’s is a story of absolute rags to lavish riches. 多个有钱了贫穷Plucked from poverty by a string of wealthy lovers, 她在救济院里长大she rose from the poorhouse 她创造了的服饰to create a style of liberating clothing 彻底改变了女性时尚的风貌that quite simply changed the face of women’s fashion. “穿着衣衫褴褛 人们记住的是衣衫”‘Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; “穿着一丝不苟记住的是穿衣的” dress impeccably and they remember the woman’ 但是 在精心呵护的公众形象背后Yet behind the ruthlessly manicured public image 却隐藏着二战时期与纳粹lies a tale of wartime collaboration with the Nazis 隐藏着她绯闻不断的and a lifetime of disastrous affairs. 她一直是情妇妻子的名分Always a mistress,never a wife, 对爱情的让她了一切Coco’s longing for love nearly cost her everything. 不过 在一个男性社会里 Yet her determination saw her triumph 她用自己的方式决心胜利in a man’s world on her own terms. 最终 In the end, 香奈儿公司成为她the House of Chanel became all she had, 但她却留下了魅力遗产but she left a legacy of glamour that lasts to this day. 可可·香奈儿Coco Chanel, 这位改变了时尚的the woman who was to transform 20th century fashion, 出生在一个不沾边的家庭was born into a life far from luxury. 她于1883年8月19日 She was named Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, 出生在法国卢瓦尔河谷小镇born on the 19th August 1883 in Saumur, 取名加布丽叶香奈儿in France’s Loire Valley. 加布丽叶Gabrielle was delivered to her scandalously unmarried parents in a poorhouse. 她的父亲是一名Her father was a market trader. 她和四个兄弟姐妹在其父亲赖以She and her 4 brothers and sisters spent much of their childhoods 法国西部的in the public markets of western France, 度过了童年的大部分时光where her father made a ba sic living. 对于工人阶层的妇女来说很These were tough times for working class women. 她们是二等公民They were second-class citizens – 没有选举权面前卑躬屈膝they could not vote and were expected to be subservient to their men, 她们通常没有选择often having no option 只能去当微薄的but to work as