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Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (August 19, 1883 – January 10, 1971)[1] was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her arguably the most important figure in the history of 20th-century fashion. Her influence on haute couture was such that she was the only person in the field to be named on TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century.[2] Contents [hide]

* 1 Life * 2 Quotes * 3 Trivia * 4 External link

[edit] Life

Gabrielle herself presented a lot of versions of her childhood. In fact she had a very poor upbringing. However, it seems certain that she was born as the second illegitimate daughter to the traveling salesman Albert Chanel, waste exterminator, and his lover Jeanne Devolle in the small city of Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. Her parents married in 1880. She had five siblings: two sisters, Julia (born 1882) and Antoinette (born 1887) and three brothers, Alphonse (born 1885), Lucien (born 1889) and Augustin (born 1891), who died after a few months. In 1895, when Gabrielle was 6 years old, her mother died; her father abandoned them a short time later. The young Gabrielle spent 7 years in the orphanage of the Catholic monastery of Aubazine, where she learned the trade of a seamstress. After affairs with generous wealthy men – a military officer and later an English industrialist – she was able to open a shop in Paris in 1913 selling ladies' hats, and within a year moved the business to the fashionable Rue Cambon. The Chanel No. 5 perfume The Chanel No. 5 perfume

In 1921 Chanel No. 5 perfume was introduced by Chanel. The perfume was the first to be sold worldwide, and its bottle's straight lines stood out from the other flamboyant perfume bottles of the time. The No. 5 in Chanel No. 5, is said to be Coco's lucky number, however it was actually chosen as it was the fifth sample of possible perfumes. Pierre Wertheimer became her partner in the perfume business in 1924. Wertheimer owned 70% of the company; Coco Chanel received 10% and her friend Bader 20%. Oddly enough, Chanel No.5 became a thorn in Coco's side as she received very little income from its success. The Wertheimers continue to control the perfume company today. In the late 1950s Marilyn Monroe revealed that Chanel no.5 was her favourite perfume. A bottle of Chanel no.5 is sold every 30 seconds.

The influential Chanel suit, launched in 1923, was an elegant suit comprising a knee-length skirt and trim, boxy jacket, traditionally made of woven wool with black trim and gold buttons and worn with large costume-pearl necklaces. Coco Chanel also popularized the little black dress, whose blank-slate versatility allowed it to be worn for day and evening, depending on how it was accessorized. Although unassuming black dresses existed before Chanel, the ones she designed were considered the haute couture standard. In 1923, she told Harper's Bazaar that "simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."

The nickname Coco was evidently acquired at La Rotonde, a cafe frequented by members of a French cavalry regiment and many of the artists who flocked to Paris' Montparnasse section at the turn of the 20th century. It was there that Chanel, then a cabaret singer, performed a song called "Qui qu'a vu Coco," and the name stuck. (Other sources state that her audiences cried "Coco" when they wanted an encore, while further sources state that the song was called "Ko Ko Ri Ko," French for "Cock-a-doodle-do.") Many sources state that the nickname "Coco" was given while working at a Cafe, "Coco" meaning 'little pet'.

Chanel was set up in business by a paramour, Étienne Balsan, a French textile heir, and her romantic affairs with the artist Paul Iribe, the Duke of Westminster, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia, and British sportsman Boy Capel all had a considerable influence on the stylistic evolution of her often male-inspired fashions. Coco Chanel was very well known for minimal accesories, but was often photographed wearing a white Camellia.

She never married. For more than 30 years, Gabrielle Chanel made the Hôtel Ritz in Paris her home, even during the Nazi occupation of Paris, during which time she was criticized for Antisemitism and homophobia, and for having an intimate affair with Hans Gunther von Dincklage, Nazi officer who arranged for her to stay in her favorite hotel, the Hôtel Ritz Paris. He later turned out to be an intelligence agent. She maintained an apartment above her Rue Cambon establishment and also owned Villa La Pausa in the town of Roquebrune on the French Riviera. However, she spent her latter years in Lausanne, Switzerland. She died in Paris and is buried there in a tomb surrounded by five stone lions.

Chanel has been portrayed on the Broadway stage by Katharine Hepburn in a musical by Andre Previn and Alan Jay Lerner, and on screen by the French actress Marie-France Pisier.

The House of Chanel in Paris, under Karl Lagerfeld, remains one of the top design houses today.

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[edit] Quotes

* "Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman." * "Fashion changes, style remains." * 'In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."   * "Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road."   * "A woman should be two things: classy and fabulous."    * "The opposite of luxury is not poverty. The opposite of luxury is vulgarity."   * “There have been several Duchesses of Westminster—but there is only one Chanel!”    * "Give a man a stone and he'll throw it. Give a man a shirt and he'll look nice."   * 'I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it." * 'I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird."

[edit] Trivia

* Coco Chanel started the trend for suntans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise. [1]

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* Official Site of Chanel