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Coco Chanel was a French fashion designer who lived from 1883 to 1971 and fundamentally changed women's clothing by creating simpler, more comfortable styles that moved away from the restrictive fashions of her era. Her designs and innovations in luxury fashion made her one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century style and continue to shape how people dress today.
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Saumur, Pays de la Loire
Gabriel Bonheur Chanel (Coco) was born in 1883. When her mother died Coco was only twelve years old. Her father abandons her and her siblings in the largest orphanage of the region, a convent in Aubazine. She started working in Moulins as a shop girl with a local milliner and the age of twenty-five , she met and started living with her first love, Ettiene Balsan. Coco starts decorating simple…
Known for
- Mythos Côte d'Azur - Liebe, Luxus, Leidenschaft2021
- Anna Karina, Remember — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2020
- Coco Chanel's battles — Herself2019
- Coco Chanel & Arletty: An Auvergne Destiny — Self (archive footage)2017
- Discovering Fashion — Self (archive footage)2016
- Losing the Thread — Self (archive footage) (voice)2015
- Coco Chanel vs Elsa Schiaparelli2014
- Chanel Chanel1988
- Arena — Self (archive footage)1975
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gabrielle
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Saumur
- Place of death
- Hôtel Ritz Paris
- Occupation
- costume designer
- Employer
- Chanel
- Languages spoken
- French
- Award
- Neiman Marcus Fashion Award
- Participant in
- WWII Axis collaboration in France
- Field of work
- jewelry design
- Official website
- chanel.com
- Image
- Coco Chanel in Los Angeles, 1931 (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Paris
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- nickname
- Gabrielle Bonheur
- pseudonym
- Coco Chanel
- date of birth
- 1883-08-19
- date of death
- 1971-01-10
- name in native language
- Coco Chanel
- Commons category
- Coco Chanel
- unmarried partner
- Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia
- place of burial
- Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery
- different from
- Coco Chanel
- birth name
- Gabrielle Chanel
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