Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
The french fashion designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was born in Saumur, France on August 19th in 1883. She was a woman of ambition and determination and became one of the 20th century’s most prominent couturiers.
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel founded her Company in 1910. Back than she had a small shop selling ladies headwear. Later Chanel became especially famous with elegant little black dress, tweed suit, and its signature No. 5 fragrance by Ernext Beaux, which debuted in 1921.
Chanel revolutionized haute couture fashion by completely replacing the traditional corset with the comfort and casual elegance of simple suits and dresses.
She introduced to the world her signature cardigan jacket in 1925 and signature “little black dress” in 1926, introducing a more sultry and
seductive definition to “sexy.” She had numerous other major successes that changed the fashion industry including the ever popular “Chanel suit”, an elegant creation composed of a knee-length skirt and trim, boxy jacket, traditionally made of wooven wool with black sewing trim and gold buttons,
worn with large costume-pearl necklaces. Elite women of high societies around the world began to flock to the now legendary Rue Cambon boutique to
commission couture outfits from her. The House of Chanel became an icon of elegance and from then on, the name “Chanel” became synonymous to elegance, wealth, and elitism, as well as the ultimate sign of French high and upper class, called “la coquettrie”.
After No. 5, Coco Chanel’s fashions became even more well-known and were purchased by the high flyers of London and Paris society alike. Chanel took to
living at the Hôtel Ritz Paris, and her suite of residence has become famous and is now named the “Coco Chanel Suite.”
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel won the Neiman Marcus award in 1957 and the Sunday Times International Fashion award in 1963. She died on January 10th 1971, in Paris.
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