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    Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was born into poverty in 1883 in France. She was orphaned at a young age and raised in a Catholic orphanage where she learned to sew. In her early career, Chanel worked as a cabaret singer and seamstress. In 1910, she opened her first shop in Paris selling hats. She later expanded into casual clothing and fragrances, including her iconic Chanel No. 5 perfume. During World War II, Chanel had an affair with a Nazi officer and was suspected of being a Nazi collaborator. After the war, she had trouble reestablishing her fashion house due to her wartime associations. Chanel died in 1971 at age 87, leaving behind a global luxury

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    Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was born into poverty in 1883 in France. She was orphaned at a young age and raised in a Catholic orphanage where she learned to sew. In her early career, Chanel worked as a cabaret singer and seamstress. In 1910, she opened her first shop in Paris selling hats. She later expanded into casual clothing and fragrances, including her iconic Chanel No. 5 perfume. During World War II, Chanel had an affair with a Nazi officer and was suspected of being a Nazi collaborator. After the war, she had trouble reestablishing her fashion house due to her wartime associations. Chanel died in 1971 at age 87, leaving behind a global luxury

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    Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was born into poverty in 1883 in France. She was orphaned at a young age and raised in a Catholic orphanage where she learned to sew. In her early career, Chanel worked as a cabaret singer and seamstress. In 1910, she opened her first shop in Paris selling hats. She later expanded into casual clothing and fragrances, including her iconic Chanel No. 5 perfume. During World War II, Chanel had an affair with a Nazi officer and was suspected of being a Nazi collaborator. After the war, she had trouble reestablishing her fashion house due to her wartime associations. Chanel died in 1971 at age 87, leaving behind a global luxury

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    COCO CHANEL 
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    COCO CHANEL

                              EARLY LIFE
    Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was born in August
    19 1883 to Eugenie Jeanne Devolle Chanel and
    Albert Chanel in Saumur, France. The children
    didn't attend school. Born into poverty, Chanel's
    mother died while she was at the young age of
    12. Following the death of her mother,
    abandoned by her father she and her siblings
    were forced to enter an orphanage. It was a
    strict disciplined life and it helped to contribute
    to Chanel's career. 
                          EDUCATIONAL LIFE 
    Not having the opportunity at a young age to school, she was at the Catholic
    boarding house. In the orphanage been sent to a Roman Catholic, the nuns
    taught her how to sew. School holidays spent with relatives encouraged her
    sewing interest and improve her skills. 
                             CAREER
    At the age of 18, Chanel left the orphanage to join a circus as a cabaret singer.
    It was during her performance she got the nickname 'COCO'. The circus
    provided her with irregular work.
    She realized that stage work was not meant for her. While staying at the
    circus she met Etienne Balsam a rich French textile heir. She became
    Balsan’s mistress and left the circus securing a job in a tailoring shop as
    a seamstress. 
    Lavishing Chanel with gifts, Balsan invited her to move in with him.
    Accepting his generous offer, she enjoyed a beautiful and luxurious life
    and started to design hats as a hobby.
    In 1909 Chanel met Captain Arthur Edward Capel, a wealthy friend of
    Balsan’s. The two had an affair which resulted in Capel agreeing to
    finance the opening of her first shop.
    Chanel opened her boutique in Paris at 31 Rue Cambon in 1910. A licensed
    hat maker, it wasn’t until two years later, when one of Chanel’s hats
    was modelled by actress Gabrielle Dorziat that her career started to move.

    In 1913 opened a boutique in Deauville, where she sold luxe casual


    clothing. Two years later she opened a third boutique called Chanel-Biarritz,
    selling to wealthy Spanish clients. 
      Chanel started to create clothing made of Jersey. Normally a material used
    for men, the fashion industry was outraged. A year later Chanel launched
    her first fragrance, Chanel No. 5. The first designer scent, it went on to
    become one of the world’s most famous fragrances.
                     PERSONAL LIFE /DIFFICULTS
     When the War broke out in 1939 Chanel closed her shops. During the
    War she engaged in an affair with Hans Gunter von Dincklage, a German
    military intelligence office. she became a Nazi intelligence operative.
    Chanel moved to Switzerland in 1945 before eventually returning to Paris
    in 1954. Chanel re-established her couture house. Her collections didn’t
    receive the commercial success they had previously. Everyone was excited
    about Christian Dior's New Look. The French public were also
    disapproving of her past involvement with the Nazis during the war.
                        DEATH 
    Continuing to design her classic collections, Coco Chanel died in 1971
    aged 87.  After her death Yvonne Dudel, Jean Cazaubon and Phlippe
    Guibourge took over the house. This was followed by Pierre Wetheimer
    acquiring the company. Trying to restore the label’s prestige, Wetheimer
    persuaded Karl Lagerfeld to end his contract at Chloe and become
    Chanel’s chief designer in 1983.  Lagerfeld’s ability to exploit, amuse
    and surprise took the label back to its former glory.
    Coco Chanel was the Twentieth Centuries most influential designer. 
    Some of Chanel products 

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