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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. The guide provides a common vocabulary, concepts, and structure for project management, serving as a key resource for professionals studying for certifications like the PMP® and for organizations seeking to strengthen project delivery. #### How is AI changing project management? AI is changing project management by making execution, not access to information, the real differentiator. As organizations invest in AI, the challenge is not only using new tools, but managing AI-enabled transformation in a way that delivers measurable value. Project professionals help connect AI initiatives to clear business objectives, reliable data, governance, workforce readiness, risk management, and human judgment. 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Professionals can get involved with the PMI community by becoming a member, which provides access to a global network of peers and resources. Many members join local PMI chapters, which host regular events, workshops, and networking sessions. Online, PMI's projectmanagement.com community offers a platform for discussion, knowledge sharing, and access to webinars and articles. Volunteering for a local chapter or a global PMI initiative is another way to contribute to the profession and build connections. #### What is the difference between PMP and CAPM? The PMP (Project Management Professional)® and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management)® are both certifications offered by PMI, but they target professionals at different career stages. The CAPM is an entry-level certification designed for individuals with little or no project experience, validating their understanding of fundamental project management knowledge and terminology. 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It conveyed prestige, quality, impeccable taste and unmistakable style. It was a sign of excellence. Coco Chanel had no patience, and too much talent, for anything less. By her death last week at 87, the French couturière had long since established herself as the 20th century’s single most important arbiter of fashion. Her innovations were basic to the wardrobes of generations of women: jersey suits and dresses, the draped turban, the chemise, pleated skirts, the jumper, turtleneck sweaters, the cardigan suit, the blazer, the little black dress, the sling pump, strapless dresses, the trench coat. Sometimes, the determining factor was practicality: Chanel wore bell-bottom trousers in Venice, the better to climb in and out of gondolas, and started the pants revolution. Sometimes, it was purely accidental: after singeing her hair, she cut it off completely, made an appearance at the Paris Opera, and started the craze for bobbed hair. But always, a Chanel idea commanded respect. Ostrich-Boa Hats. Born outside Paris in 1883, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (never called anything but Coco for “Little Pet”) was orphaned at six and raised in the desolate province of Auvergne by two aunts. From them, she learned that little girls should sew, sit up straight and speak politely; for sewing, a skill that forever eluded her. Coco substituted horseback riding. From Etienne Balsan, a millionaire cavalry officer who brought her to Paris at 16, Coco acquired the habits and tastes of the wealthy. She liked them—all but the ladies’ predilection for ostrich-boa-draped hats. To provide an alternative, she opened a millinery boutique in Deauville, won enough acclaim to set up shop in Paris in 1914\. She started with several hats and “one dress, but a tasteful dress.” added sweaters, and within five years had made Maison Chanel a fashion house to reckon with. Coco introduced the tricot sailor frock and the pullover sweater, unearthed wool jersey from its longtime service as underwear fabric and put it to use in soft, clinging dresses. She ushered in gypsy skirts, embroidered silk blouses and accompanying shawls. Even then, Chanel clothes were as high-priced as any Paris couturier’s; but only Chanel delighted in having her styles copied —and made accessible at low cost to millions. “There is time for work. And time for love,” said Coco Chanel. “That leaves no other time.” In the ’20s, Chanel filled her off-hours with Arthur (“Boy”) Capel, a wealthy English polo player whose lavish gifts of jewels served as the keystones of Coco’s astonishing collection, and whose blazer —lent to the designer on a chilly day at the polo grounds—became the source of her famous box jacket. From the Duke of Westminster. Chanel’s most renowned amour, came more jewels; these she had copied, setting off the costume-jewelry vogue. With a personal fortune rumored by then to be close to $15 million—most of it the result of the pungent success of Chanel No. 5 —the designer calculated that she had little to gain, and quite a name to lose, from marriage to the Duke. So she finally turned him down, explaining with characteristic bluntness, “There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.” Cool Reception. In 1938, with the war coming on and the Italian designer Schiaparelli moving in on the fashion front. Chanel retired. For the next 15 years, she shuttled between Vichy and Switzerland, returning to reopen her Paris salon in 1954 only to boost lagging perfume sales. Her jersey-and-tweed suits won a cool reception from the press, but soon nearly every knockoff house was competing to turn out the closest replica. Chanel had long since refused to join the cabal of Paris designers who tried to prevent style piracy. “I am not an artist,” she insisted. “I want my dresses to go out on the street.” Out they went by the thousands, easy to copy, because of the straightforward design, and cheap to produce, because the fabric was standard. Even a copy of a Chanel could claim its cachet. Private customers paid $700 for the original; buyers, intent on knockoffs, paid close to $1,500\. In the ’60s. Coco sprang no surprises, only refinements on what was her classic look: the short, straight, collarless jacket, the slightly flaring skirt, and hems that never budged from mid-knee length. Wearing the broad-brimmed Breton hat that was her hallmark, her scissors hanging from a ribbon around her neck, and her four fingers held firmly together in spite of severe arthritis, she would feel for defects. Working directly on the model, she often picked a dress apart with the point of her scissors, complaining that it was unwearable. Her fashion empire, at her death, brought in over $160 million a year. Her clients constituted a litany of the best-dressed women, not of the year but of the century: Princess Grace Queen Fabiola, Marlene Dietrich Ingrid Bergman, all the Rothschilds’ and most of the Rockefellers. A musical version of her life, enhanced by Katharine Hepburn but stripped of most of the real drama, put Coco on Broadway. She was on a first-name basis with people too famous to need first names: Cocteau, Colette, Diaghilev, Dali, Picasso. Yet at the time of her death, the woman Picasso termed “the most sensible m the world” had a Paris wardrobe consisting of only three outfits. “If Mademoiselle Chanel has reigned over fashion,” mused Jean Cocteau some time ago, “it is not because she cut women’s hair, married silk and wool, put pearls on sweaters, avoided poetic labels on her perfumes, lowered the waistline or raised the waistline and obliged women to follow her directives; it is because—outside of this gracious and robust dictatorship—there is nothin» in her era that she has missed.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6838500/modern-living-chanel-no-1/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6838500/modern-living-chanel-no-1/"},"headline":"Modern Living: Chanel No. 1","datePublished":"1971-01-25T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-13T09:34:20.956Z","description":"Just her name was enough to define a pair of shoes, a hat, a pocketbook, a suit, perfume, jewelry—an entire look. 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