Coco Chanel real name (Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel ) was born in august the 19th 1883 and her birthplace was in a place called Saumur she claimed that she was born in 1993 and born in Auvergne.
Her mother past away when she was 12 and left her dad with 5 children to look after and then quickly gave away his children to relatives, Coco Chanel was gave away to a orphanage of the catholic monastery of Aubazine, were she learnt how the trade works in seamstress. Most of her school holidays where spent with her relatives in provincial capital of Moulin’s where Chanel learnt to sew with more softness and flawlessly. At the age of 18 Chanel left the orphanage and worked for a local tailor.
Chanel adopted the name Coco Chanel after her brief carrier of being a cafe and concert singer in the years 1905-1908, Coco was a mistress of a rich military officer and then was a mistress of an English industrialist, Chanel opened up a millinery shop in Paris in 1910 making it much bigger to Deauville and Biarritz both of her partners helped her gain more popular by introducing women from the society and her hats become quite popular.
Coco Chanel claimed that when her mum dies her dad went to america and she got given to her two horrible aunts she also told people that she was born in 1993 and that her mum died when she was 6 she did all this to hide her life as she didn't really like the truth about it.
in 1920 Chanel became the first to design loose wear for women clothes jerseys it was like the men tradition underwear, making it more relaxing for women to wear instead of wearing corsets that where hard and stiff this became very popular , her short skirts and casual looks where the opposite to the perviouse corset wear that was given long before.
In 1922 Chanel had brought out a perfume called Chanel N0 5 which was very popular and remained popular through out are generation a man called Pierre Wertheimer took 70% of the business to do with the fragrance and company in 1924.
In 1925 Coco Chanel made her signature cardigan jacket and then later on followed it with the little black dress (LBD).
in world war 2 she became one of the nurses evan tho her popularity went down after she was having a affair with the Nazi officer she moved to Switzerland.
Coco chanel designed costumes for shows such as Cocteau’s Antigone in 1923 and Oedipus Rex in 1937 and cinematic works such as La Regle de Jeu.
later on Coco Chanel had a musical about her life on the Broadway in 1969 , and worked until her death in 1971 at the age of 88.
Coco Chanel claimed that when her mum dies her dad went to america and she got given to her two horrible aunts she also told people that she was born in 1993 and that her mum died when she was 6 she did all this to hide her life as she didn't really like the truth about it.
in 1920 Chanel became the first to design loose wear for women clothes jerseys it was like the men tradition underwear, making it more relaxing for women to wear instead of wearing corsets that where hard and stiff this became very popular , her short skirts and casual looks where the opposite to the perviouse corset wear that was given long before.
In 1925 Coco Chanel made her signature cardigan jacket and then later on followed it with the little black dress (LBD).
in world war 2 she became one of the nurses evan tho her popularity went down after she was having a affair with the Nazi officer she moved to Switzerland.
Coco chanel designed costumes for shows such as Cocteau’s Antigone in 1923 and Oedipus Rex in 1937 and cinematic works such as La Regle de Jeu.
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