Coco Chanel
Gabrielle ''Coco'' Bonheur Chanel was born on August19, 1883 in Saumur, France and died on Januaty 10, 1971 in Paris, France (aged 87 ). She was a French fashion designer and founder of the Chanel brand.
The year 1906 found Chanel in the spa resort town of Vichy. Vichy boasted a profusion of concert halls, theatres and cafes where Chanel hoped to find success as a performer. Chanel's youth and physical charms impressed those for whom she auditioned, but her singing voice was marginal and she failed to find stage work. Obliged to find employment, she took work at the "Grande Grille", where as a donneuse d'eau she was one of the females whose job it was to dispense glasses of the purportedly curative mineral water for which Vichy was renowned. When the Vichy season ended, Chanel returned to Moulins, and her former haunt "La Rotonde". She now realized that a serious stage career was not in her future.
Chanel was known for her lifelong determination, ambition and energy which she applied to her professional and social life. She achieved both success as a businesswoman and social prominence thanks to the connections she made through her work. These included many artists and craftspeople to whom she became a patron.
One of the most important questions about the history of fashion is ''Where would women’s fashion be without Coco Chanel?'' Certainly it would be a bit different, maybe a little less confident and certainly a lot less comfortable. It is no coincidence that she was the only fashion designerto appear on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
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