Coco Chanel

A fashion designer. Makes/designs hats, perfume, purses, dresses, suits, sofas, shoes, and basically everything you can think of! Life span: 1 ! to 1"#1 $he lived to be # years old.

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Early Life

When Coco Chanel was 12, her mother died of tuberculosis. A year later, her father sent she and her siblings to a orphanage named Aubazine. She learned to sew there. When she was 18, she left the orphanage and had a short career as a singer. Aubazine left!

"amous #utfits

$he %&ittle 'lac( )ress* $op on the left!. )esigned in 1+,- in the Vogue magazine. Chanel Suit 'ottom left!. .ade with /ersey, a material commonly used for men wear.

Family
Coco Chanel apartment, ,1 0ue Cambon

%ad & siblings, 'ulia( )erthe *1 +,1"1!-, Antoinette *born 1 #-, Alphonse *born 1 &-, Lucien *born 1 "- and Augustin *born and died 1 "1-. %er mother, a laundry.omen, died in 1 "& of tuberculosis. %er father .as street peddler, traveling to and from market to.ns.

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Chanel ne1er married 2n 1+34, she li1ed in Switzerland Was accused of being a 5azi Agent &earned how to sew from the nuns 6er first shop was a hat shop Closed all her shops during World War $wo )ied in 6otel 0itz