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ANAGRAMS
When we look back to the events that shaped the early 20th
Century a number of them standout as having had a significant impact
on our world, events that essentially shaped our present day lives. In
1906 the first working mechanical television system was created,
followed by Henry Ford’s car he called the Model T in 1908. 1914 saw
the beginning of the War to End All Wars, or WWI. That same year
Ford Motor Company announced an eight-hour workday and a
minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor. In 1930 Charles Jenkins
broadcasts the first TV commercial and by 1936 about two hundred
television sets were in use worldwide. When Neil Armstrong became
the first man to walk the moon on July 20, 1969, 600 Million people
watched. Just six years ago there were 590 million passenger cars
worldwide (roughly one car for every eleven people) and since WWI,
or the War to End All Wars, there have been over 250 more, many of
which are ongoing.
An event that few remember or even care to acknowledge is one that
occurred in the year 1919. On a hot summer evening of that year
Above, Chanel Warrior Boots.
Vanity Fair Magazine held a ravishing after-party for the restoration of
the Nghe Temple for the Le Chan warrior by the people of An Bien in
Right, tourists in front of
the Ma region of Vietnam. The who’s who of the Orient social-set was
the Le Chan warrior statue assembled and one Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel happened to be
in Hai Phòng, Vietnam.
among those attending. Coco, the top of the Parisian social pyramid at
the time, was amazed at the spectacle and began to study the legend
of the Le Chan and became engrossed in her studies of this historical
lady-figure. Villagers believed that following Le Chan’s passing she
turned into a stone and miraculously floated on the river’s surface. Some
say she was a genie and her work as a warrior manifests itself into those
visiting the lands surrounding the site.
Years after the legacy that Coco Chanel has left behind we can see the
historical narratives of the Le Chan warrior in the designs today. Perhaps
the experiences she felt in the year 1919 have made an impression on
the ateliers in Paris, even today. / K.Hinton
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