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Around the age of 20, Chanel became involved with Etienne Balsan, who offered to help her start a millinery business in Paris. Her design aesthetic redefined the fashionable woman in the post World War I era. The Chanel trademark look was of youthful ease, liberated physicality, and unencumbered sportive confidence. Her funeral was held at… Continue reading Gabrielle coco Chanel 1883

Upon conquering France in June 1940, the Nazis established a Parisian occupation-headquarters in the Hôtel Meurice, on the rue de la Rivoli, opposite the Louvre Museum, and just around the corner from the fashionable Maison Chanel S.A., at 31 rue Cambon. In 1923, to explain the success of her clothes, Coco Chanel told Harper’s Bazaar… Continue reading Gabrielle coco Chanel 1883