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Coco Chanel
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a French fashion designer, collaborator, 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 feminine standard of style. She is the only fashion designer listed on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. A prolific fashion creator, Chanel extended her influence beyond couture clothing into jewellery, handbags, and fragrance. Her signature scent, Chanel No. 5, has become an iconic product, and Chanel herself designed her famed interlocked-CC monogram, which has been in use since the 1920s.
business · French fashion designer (1883–1971) · fashion designer · textile designer · business executive · modiste · grand couturier · costume designer · entrepreneur · also Coco Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, Gabrielle Chanel, Chanel
Born 19 August 1883 · Died 10 January 1971 · Q45661
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En Pareja: Date night outfits men instantly love, inspired by Coco Chanel
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House & Garden: Coco Chanel’s beloved Riviera garden has been restored to its 1930s beauty
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Philstar Life: Did Coco Chanel try to set Elsa Schiaparelli on fire?
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Paris Select Book: Peter Marino resurrects Coco Chanel's Riviera gardens at La Pausa, ancient olive trees and all
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Mshale: ELLE TV: Say Lou Lou's Chanel Fashion Week Show Diary Russell Westbrook (lz9kVpmShG)
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Coco Chanel: ‘The most courageous act is still to think for…’ What the fashion icon te
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Coco Chanel: ‘The most courageous act is still to think for…’ What the fashion icon teaches us about courage and individuality
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Onda Cero: Coco Chanel vuelve a Biarritz, donde comenzó su historia en la moda
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revistavanityfair.es: Louise de Vilmorin, la escritora musa de Azzedine Alaïa que se enfrentó con Coco Chanel y fue el gran amor de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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marieclaire.ua: 800-Year-Old Olive Trees and Lavender: Chanel Has Restored Coco Chanel's Garden
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EntertainmentNow: Hollywood Icon Joan Collins Pays Homage to Coco Chanel
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AD Middle East: Inside Coco Chanel’s French Riviera Getaway That Has Just Been Restored to Its 1930s Glory
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Yahoo: Inside the Restoration of Coco Chanel's Garden on the French Riviera
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Architectural Digest: Coco Chanel's Riviera Gardens Were Restored With Her Iconic Tweed Suits In Mind
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ArchDaily: Galería de Frases: Coco Chanel y el estilo - 1
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A purported membership card for the French Resistance belonging to Chanel was discovered in the French national archives by Chanel biographer Justine Picardie
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Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Chanel for 1924
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The Chanel firm released an exact replica of the original 1955 bag to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its creation
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Died 1971-01-10.
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“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”
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“The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
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“Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.”
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“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
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“Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.”
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“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
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“Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”
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“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
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“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
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“Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.”
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“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
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“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
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“As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.”
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“I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière — a real devil.”
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“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
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Awarded Neiman Marcus Fashion Award (1957).
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Has clearly been whited out before "Eric" was written in with no supporting evidence from witnesses on file that she was ever in the resistance and that "Eric" primarily operated in the Balkans, not where Chanel lived
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The French press were cautious due to her collaboration during the war and the controversy of the collection
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Was fully financed by Chanel's opponent in the perfume battle, Pierre Wertheimer
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Sold her villa La Pausa on the French Riviera to the publisher and translator Emery Reves
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Owing to incurable liver disease and took refuge in Italy
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Chanel left her retreat in Switzerland to confront testimony given against her at the war crime trial of Baron Louis de Vaufreland, a French traitor and highly placed German intelligence agent
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With his "New Look", and a cadre of male designers achieved recognition: Dior, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Robert Piguet, and Jacques Fath
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Chanel was quoted by her friend and confidant, Paul Morand, Homosexuals
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Chanel moved to Switzerland, where she lived for several years, part of the time with Dincklage
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Chanel left a note in her store window explaining Chanel No
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Recalled a meeting he had with Dincklage in early 1943, in which the baron had suggested including Lombardi as a courier
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To convince the British ambassador to Spain, Sir Samuel Hoare, a friend of Winston Churchill, about a possible German surrender once the war was leaning towards an Allied victory
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Chanel travelled to the RSHA in Berlin, known as the "lion's den"
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At the beginning of World War II, Chanel closed her shops, maintaining her apartment situated above the couture house at 31 Rue de Cambon
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One year after Le Témoin ceased publication, Chanel veered to the opposite end of the ideological continuum by financing Pierre Lestringuez's radical left-wing magazine Futur
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As a decorative element on a white-trimmed black suit
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Designer Paul Iribe collaborated with Chanel in the creation of extravagant jewellery pieces commissioned by the International Guild of Diamond Merchants
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While in Monte Carlo, Chanel became acquainted with Samuel Goldwyn
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Chanel introduced a handbag inspired by soldiers' bags
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The Duke of Westminster gave Chanel a parcel of land he had purchased in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the French Riviera
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Maintained a friendship that lasted some forty years
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The American edition of Vogue published an image of a Chanel little black dress with long sleeves, dubbing it the garçonne ('little boy' look)
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Chanel made an agreement with the Wertheimer brothers, Pierre and Paul, directors since 1917 of the eminent perfume and cosmetics house Bourjois
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At age forty, Chanel was introduced by Lombardi to the vastly wealthy Duke of Westminster, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, known to his intimates as "Bendor"
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Vera Bate Lombardi, (born Sarah Gertrude Arkwright), reputedly the illegitimate daughter of the Marquess of Cambridge, offered Chanel entry into the highest levels of British upper classes
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The Chanel tweed suit was designed for comfort and practicality
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At the Longchamps races, Théophile Bader, founder of the Paris Galeries Lafayette, introduced Chanel to businessman Pierre Wertheimer
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Opened an early incarnation of a fashion boutique, featuring clothing, hats, and accessories, later expanded to offer jewellery and fragrances
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Marked one of the first times a designer extended their brand beyond clothing, helping to establish the modern concept of lifestyle branding in fashion
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Chanel herself vowed that, while observing an audience at the opera, she would dress all women in black
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“In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.”
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Chanel purchased the building at 31 rue Cambon, in one of the most fashionable districts of Paris
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Did not completely break off with Chanel
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Chanel was able to reimburse Capel's original investment
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Chanel opened a boutique in Deauville, financed by Arthur Capel, where she introduced deluxe casual clothing suitable for leisure and sport
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And opened a boutique at 21 rue Cambon, Paris, named Chanel Modes
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Chanel began an affair with one of Balsan's friends, Captain Arthur Edward 'Boy' Capel
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Chanel worked in the spa resort town of Vichy
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Career landmark: Participated in WWII Axis collaboration in France (tournament / event).
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Married Jeanne Devolle, persuaded to legitimate his children by her family who had "united, effectively, to pay Albert"
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Born 1883-08-19.
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To Eugénie Jeanne Devolle Chanel, known as Jeanne, a laundrywoman, in the charity hospital run by the Sisters of Providence (a poorhouse) in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire
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