Going to go see “Coco Avant Chanel” tonight.
Then I realised I didn’t know what “Avant” meant – fyi: it meants “before” or “pre-”
The title is very clever. I will post a review once I’ve seen it.
Anyway, as wiki does, it lead me to look up “Avant Garde” and I thought I’d share the interesting meaning behind it:
Avant-garde (French pronunciation: [av???a?d]) means “advance guard” or “vanguard“.[1] The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.
The term was originally used to describe the foremost part of an army advancing into battle (also called the vanguard) and now applied to any group, particularly of artists, that considers itself innovative and ahead of the majority.
The vanguard, a small troop of highly skilled soldiers, explores the terrain ahead of a large advancing army and plots a course for the army to follow. This concept is applied to the work done by small collectives of intellectuals and artists as they open pathways through new cultural or political terrain for society to follow.
Source: wikipedia
