Coco Chanel - Wikipedia
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (/ ʃ ə ˈ n ɛ l / shə-NEL, French: [ɡabʁijɛl bɔnœʁ kɔko ʃanɛl] ⓘ; 19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) [2] was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post-World War I era with popularising a sporty, casual chic as the ...
Coco Chanel | Biography, Fashion, Designs, Perfume, & Facts
2024年10月22日 · Coco Chanel was a French fashion designer who ruled Parisian haute couture for almost six decades. Among her now-classic innovations were the Chanel suit, the quilted purse, costume jewelry, and the little black dress. Learn more about Chanel’s life and career.
Coco Chanel - Quotes, Fashion & Facts - Biography
2014年4月2日 · Early Life. Chanel was born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel on August 19, 1883, in Saumur, France. Her early years were anything but glamorous. At age 12, after her mother’s death, Chanel...
Coco Chanel Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life
Childhood & Early Life. Chanel was born on 19 August 1883 to an unwed mother Eugenie Jeanne Devolle. She did not have a great childhood and grew up with poverty surrounding her. Her mother Eugenie Jeanne Devolle was a laundry woman in the Charity hospital run by the Sisters of Providence in Saumur, France.
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883–1971) and the House of Chanel
Born in Saumur, in the Loire Valley of France, Chanel survived an impoverished childhood and strict convent education. The difficulties of her early life inspired her to pursue a radically different lifestyle, first on the stage, where she acquired the nickname “Coco,” and then as a milliner.
The History of Coco Chanel — Coco Chanel Gabriella Chanel …
Coco Chanel, born Gabrielle Chanel, was the most revolutionary stylist of the 1900s. Read her raw story, from her tumultuous childhood to creating the little black dress.
In search of the 'real' Coco Chanel - BBC
2023年9月14日 · However, by tracing her history through rural France, Justine Picardie has been able to piece together her childhood. The butcher was the only place in the Auvergne village of Courpière that...
Coco Chanel Biography
The early life of Coco Chanel. Most sources suggest Gabrielle Chanel was born in 1883, though this was a closely guarded fact – with Coco not keen on revealing her birth date. Her mother was unmarried and her upbringing was marked by poverty and uncertainty.
Coco Chanel - New World Encyclopedia
Early life and career. She was born the second daughter of itinerant merchant Albert Chanel and Jeanne Devolle in the small town of Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. Her parents married in 1883, the year after she was born. She had four siblings: Two sisters, Julie and Antoinette, and two brothers, Alphonse and Lucien.
Biography of Coco Chanel, Famed Fashion Designer and …
2019年6月6日 · Early Years and Career. Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel claimed to be born in 1893 at Auvergne, but she was actually born on August 19, 1883, in Saumur, France.