Chanel
“A girl should be two things: classy and FABULOUS!”
– Coco Chanel
– Coco Chanel
She started as a hat maker to the divas, and they would reveal her name to Paris…
Her business would soon grow into something never known in the history. Traditionally, dressmakers had never been
part of "society". But Coco Chanel changed that. Coco Chanel became a magnetic person, an international figure
invited everywhere. It did not seem to surprise her at all. She commented: “I did not go into society because I had to
design clothes. I designed clothes precisely because I did go out, because I was the first to live the life of this century…”
Coco Chanel received the attention of high-born, aristocratic suitors, like Grand Duke Dimitri of Russia and Duke of
Westminster. She was surrounded by the crème de la crème of the society, the most famous women and men of her
time.
Her business would soon grow into something never known in the history. Traditionally, dressmakers had never been
part of "society". But Coco Chanel changed that. Coco Chanel became a magnetic person, an international figure
invited everywhere. It did not seem to surprise her at all. She commented: “I did not go into society because I had to
design clothes. I designed clothes precisely because I did go out, because I was the first to live the life of this century…”
Coco Chanel received the attention of high-born, aristocratic suitors, like Grand Duke Dimitri of Russia and Duke of
Westminster. She was surrounded by the crème de la crème of the society, the most famous women and men of her
time.
From modest beginnings....
Abandoned by her father at the age of
12, Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel spent the
rest of her school years raised by nuns in
an orphanage. With help from successful
businessman, Arthur Capel, Chanel
opened her first milliner shop in Paris in
1910, and later in 1913 her boutique in
Deauville, France.
http://www.famous-women-and-beauty.com
Abandoned by her father at the age of
12, Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel spent the
rest of her school years raised by nuns in
an orphanage. With help from successful
businessman, Arthur Capel, Chanel
opened her first milliner shop in Paris in
1910, and later in 1913 her boutique in
Deauville, France.
http://www.famous-women-and-beauty.com
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