Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel was born in 1883, in France, in an orphanage, and her real name was Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel.

Her family was very poor, without economics means. She lives in a precarious situation in the beginning of her life. She had a very difficult childhood because, her mother died when she’d twelve years old and her father abandoned her when she was younger.

She transformed the fashion world and she was a revolutionary woman with a strong and tough character due at her infancy. She was a pioneering French fashion designer and makes her an important figure in 20^th century to nowadays.

In 1909, she started in the fashion world, designing clothes and hats in Paris.

Also, one year later, in 1910, with the financial support of her lover, Boy Capel, Coco opens her first clothing store: Fashion Clothing Chanel.

She converts precarious, old and simple clothes in a new trend with luxury and elegance, which nowadays we still use. She was the founder of the famous fashion brand Chanel.

Rich and famous women, bought her products, complements and clothes, and Coco can make her own fortune.

Coco Chanel changed and revolutionized the way of the dress of women in the XX century, becoming an important and fashion symbol. She died in 1971, in Paris, France.

Sandra Fillet