Friday, January 31, 2020
DID YOU KNOW THIS ABOUT COCO CHANEL?? DON'T KNOW WHO SHE IS? READ
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a
French fashion designer, Nazi spy, and businesswoman. The founder and
namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post-World War I
era with liberating women from the constraints of the "corseted
silhouette" and popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the feminine
standard of style.
Born in 1883, in France, Coco Chanel’s start was different from what
many of the people who wore her fashions could imagine. Rather than grow
up in a lavish estate or in the heart of Paris’ fashion world, Chanel
was raised in an orphanage where she was sent at the age of 12, when her mother died at age 32. She
was abandoned by her father who either couldn’t or didn’t want to take
care of her.
Chanel was taught to sew
by the nuns who raised her, something that would come in handy for the
rest of her life. Before she turned to fashion, Chanel briefly worked as
a night club singer in Vichy and Moulins were she was referred to as
“Coco.” She opened her first shop on Paris’s Rue Cambon in 1910 where
she sold hats. By the 1920s she was in international superstar.
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