Coco Chanel - The biography of Coco Chanel with here.fr
Coco Chanel is at the origin of the eponymous house.Symbol of French elegance, it is famous for its haute couture creations and perfumes.
Born in Saumur of a Camelot father and a seamstress mother, Gabrielle Happiness Chasnel has 5 brothers and sisters.Her mother dies when she is 12 years old.Several versions of her childhood clash, but the one who prevails is that she would then have grown in an orphanage with her sisters.
She learns of sewing with her aunt.Attracted by the scene, she also sings in the cafes in Vichy where she wins her nickname, Coco.She meets her future protector there, Étienne Balsa who presents Arthur "Boy" Capel, her great love, who died in 1919.The latter convinces her to settle as a modist in Paris.In 1910, Coco opened Chanel Modes at 21, rue Cambon, then shops in Deauville and Biarritz.It was in the Basque Country that she installs her fashion house and draws her first creations.She uses jersey to compensate for the shortage of fabric in wartime, draws straight dresses and dares the pants for women.The success is immediate.At the end of the war, it employs 300 workers.
In 1921, Coco Chanel acquired 2 new buildings on rue Cambon.The same year she launched the famous N ° 5 of Chanel.It was in 1926 that she drawn her legendary little black dress, symbol of elegance and simplicity.In 1936, she presented a line of high jewelry.
At the announcement of the 2nd World War, Coco Chanel closes the doors of his fashion house to devote himself only to perfumes.At the Liberation, she left for Switzerland and only returned to Paris in 1954, settled definitively in her apartments of the Ritz hotel.She creates new models that will become classics such as the tweed tailor, the matt chanel bag and the two -color ballerinas.
"Mademoiselle" died in January 1971, at the age of 87, while preparing a new collection, which was posthumously presented.
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