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Davis, Mary. "Chanel, Stravinsky, and Musical Chic." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture 10.4 (2006): 431-460. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010.

This article is about how Chanel change the fashion world. How she went to the streets of France to get the inpiration for her designs. The simple style was the new Chic after the war. Being comfortable took precedence over the elegance of an outfit. The article also is about how her style changed otherr aspects of modern art in the 1900s.

Davis, Mary E. "Classical Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism". University of California Press. 2006. Print. This book is all about Classical Chic during the modernism movement. There are many different chapters including an entire chapter on Coco Chanel. The chapter started out by talking about she influenced the 1920s and the 1930s. How she turned around the fashion of the time. She kept the ideas of the "liberated women" and applied it to all of her work. It goes through each of her steps to how she became the iconic fashion designer she is today. Also, each of the types of article of clothing that made her so iconic. It then goes on to talk about how the label as taken over after her death.

Sischy, Ingrid. "Coco Chanel. (Cover story)." Time 151.22 (1998): 98. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. This article is a retrospect from TIME magazine about the designer Coco Chanel. It talks about how other famous designers have copied some of Chanel's strategies. How she offered the people that wore her clothes were given the feeling of "hidden luxury" rather than outwardly ostentatious luxury. The article speaks about how Chanel constantly spoke of femininity rather than feminism. Chanel was part of a movement of designers that made fashion a type of art and expressing yourself. The article also talks about the way that Chanel "stuck it to the man", so to speak. It speaks about her early life and how she got to be the famous designer that she ended her life as

Rompalske, Dorothy. "Chanel number one." Biography 2.11 (1998): 60. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. This article is a biography of how Chanel got started in fashion. It talks about what we see in today's fashion was started by her such as cardigan sweaters. Also, it talks about how she got started in the fashion world.

"Coco Chanel." Biography.com. Web. 15 Nov 2010\nThis article from Biography.com is about everything from her childhood to her death. It also covers everything from her fashion to her love life. The article also talks about how the economic depression in the 1930s effected Chanel and her business. It also speaks about her connection with Nazi Germany and how she got out of the trouble that she should have been in.

Krick, Jessa. "Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) and the House of Chanel". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.
This article rather than being a biography about her life this is mainly about the revolution of her clothing line. How she first got started and her early successes. Then it goes on to describe how she became the style icon of of her time. Also it outlines how she had to close the doors to her store when France went into World War II. Then it talks about how she made her come back after the war was over. The last part of the article talks about how even through her her death her legened as a designer lives on.