Coco Chanel
Costume Design
Gabriel Bonheur Chanel (Coco) was born in 1883. When her mother died Coco was only twelve years old. Her father abandons her and her siblings in the largest orphanage of the region, a convent in Aubazine. She started working in Moulins as a shop girl with a local milliner and the age of twenty-five , she met and started living with her first love, Ettiene Balsan. Coco starts decorating simple straw and felt hats and created beautiful and unusual designs, captivating the attention and admiratio...
Place of Birth: Saumur, Pays de la Loire
Date of Birth: Aug 19, 1883
Date of Death: Jan 10, 1971
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