Designing Education

☆ Strive for beauty and elegance, but understand that those things will not be the same for everybody.

• Who was Coco Chanel?
• What difficulties did she encounter in becoming a designer?
• How did her designs influence the world of fashion?
• Are you giving your students the opportunity to make something beautiful? Do they see the beauty in what they are producing/creating?
• What is beautiful (attractive) about the materials you prepare for your students?

• Wikipedia Article - "Coco Chanel"
• Biography.com - "Coco Chanel"
• Biography.com - video bio "Coco Chanel"
• "Inside Chanel" - Visual Timeline of Company History

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”

• Chanel Activity #1 - Real Beauty Sketches
• Chanel Activity #2 - Writing Prompt
• Chanel Activity #3 - “Beauty's Where You Find It” (The Josh Bell Experiment)
• What Color is the Dress? - buzzfeed article wired article
• Yanny or Laurel? - Vox article
• Impact of universal screening on gifted identification - Sun-Sentinel, Broward County, Florida