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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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