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Women in Business Part 2

(pp.6-12)
Chanel. Part 2

1. What did the First World War change in the life of


women?
2. How did the life of rich young people change after the
bad times of war?
3. Be ready to speak about Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll
Morton, Charlie Chaplin, and Greta Garbo. ( the
information in brief)
4. What did the end of the war mean for Coco?
5. What was her best decision?
6. Why did Coco go into the cosmetics business?
7. Who helped Coco to realize her business idea?
8. What kind of perfume did Wertheimer and Chanel
invent?
9. What name was given to that perfume?
10. With what famous people did Coco mix? Be ready to
speak about Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso and Sergei
Diaghilev?
11. What kind of people did she prefer to meet?
12. With whom was Chanel often seen after her close
friend Boy Chapel was killed in a car crash?
13. The 1920s were the happiest ten years of the
twentieth century. When and why did those happy years
end?
14. Was the stock exchange in Wall Street, New York a
disaster for Coco? What was the lesson of Biarritz Coco
always remember?
15. Who and why remembered that lesson of Biarritz as
well as Coco? Why did Sam Goldwyn address to the top
fashion designer in the world designer Coco Chanel?
16. What was the first question Coco asked Sam Goldwyn
when she learned about his idea?
17. Why were the people surprised when they saw the
film?
18. What problems did Coco face when she returned to
Paris? How many people worked for Coco’s business in
the middle of the 1930s? Why did she sack three hundred
workers? Why did Coco employ them again?
19. “Von D” was Coco’s new boyfriend. What did people
think about him?
20. Why did Coco decide to close her fashion business in
1936? How Coco comment on her decision? How did her
life style change at that time?
21. How did Coco make money at that time? Why did
Wertheimer, Coco and their lawyers start to argue about
the whole perfume business?
22. Why did Coco leave France when the war ended?

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