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Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (/ ʃ ə ˈ n ɛ l / shə-NEL, French: [ɡabʁijɛl bɔnœʁ kɔko ʃanɛl] ⓘ; 19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) [2] was a French fashion designer and businesswoman.
In 1924, Coco Chanel made an agreement with the Wertheimers creating a corporate entity, "Parfums Chanel." Chanel believed that the time was opportune to extend the sale of her fragrance Chanel No. 5 to a wider customer base. Since its introduction it had been available only as an exclusive offering to an elite clientele in her boutique.
What did Coco Chanel and Christian Dior disagree about? Chanel opened her first independent shop on Rue Cambon in Paris in 1910 at the age of 27. What she was doing felt revolutionary in its own ...
In 1920, with the help of the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891–1941), a companion of Coco Chanel (1883–1971), he arranged a meeting in Cannes late in the summer of 1920, where he presented his current and former works to Mlle. Chanel. Chanel chose the "No. 5" as a Christmas present for her best clients.
– Coco Chanel, 1971. CHANEL's timeless designs are still adored "May my legend prosper and thrive, I wish it a long and happy life!" – Coco Chanel, 1971. CHANEL's timeless designs are still adored
Nancy Deihl explores all the events that led to the rise of designer Coco Chanel, and how she experimented with contradiction in her personal life and her fashion
Le nez de Chanel: The perfumer Ernest Beaux (1881–1961) Coco Chanel had wanted to develop a distinctly modern fragrance for some time prior to early-1920. At this time, Chanel's lover was Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov of Russia, the murderer of Rasputin. The duke introduced her to Ernest Beaux on the French Riviera. Beaux was the master ...
The Wertheimers took full control of Chanel’s fashion and fragrance divisions in 1954, according to Bloomberg—in exchange for paying Coco Chanel’s bills and taxes for the rest of her life.