career lessons , Coco Chanel

  Among the valuable experience they gain the inventor of Chanel No. 5 and from day to evening dress for women :

First Branding is everything.

( " ? She perfume , I think , or hats " ) Even people who have only a vague idea of ​​who Coco Chanel was still recognize the double - C logo and associate it with the company she built - and more importantly for the business , and luxury. Take seriously your own brand. Be recognized for what you do, and does it well , the best thing that can happen to you is professional.

Second Be yourself - and to break the rules if you need to .

Levo League begins her room with a great quote from the lady herself : " The courageous act is still to think out loud for itself. " . Chanel has done just that. Before she started to her iconic costumes soon -to-be , no one thinks that wearing bikini in public. It was basically as if she had the sweatpants were quite appropriate for a meeting designed .

3rd Your career is a lifelong task .

The History of Chanel is not flawless, to say the least . Historians still debate the extent to which they collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War , to name just one example too terrible . But even his harshest critics admit that it changed women's fashion . And his re-emergence in the 1950s shows that the returns always possible career.

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