Gabrielle Chanel Essay

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Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel French fashion designer, born on the 19th of August 1883 in a poor hous Saumur, France. Coco Chanel was a pauper who had five siblings 2 sisters Julie, Antoinette and three Brothers Alphonse, Lucien and Augstin. Unfortunately her life was anything but glamorous, her mother Jeanne Devollec died in 1895 when Chanel was eleven , After her mother’s death Chanel’s father took Gabriella and her sister Julie to an orphanage, and her brothers went to a farm and became child laborers. Gabrielle had been staying in the orphanage for six years. She was a fierce, pretty, and restless girl, and she knew that she was different from other , she was raised and taught sewing by nuns this helped her a lot in her future career. Chanel was taught how to be a polite little girl, to sit up straight and to learn how to sew. She took an early liking to sewing and instead of playing with dolls, spent much time dressing them in material she had cut from curtains not like other children in her age. at the age of eighteen she left the orphanage and worked as a singer in clubs Vichy and Moulin’s where she was called Coco Chanel says it’s a shortcut for “cocotte” means kept woman, After she was fired she worked in a tailoring shop where she met a rich French man named Etienne Balsan a French socialite and heir. who she loved and wanted to live the rest of her life with, he as well loved her and lavished on her. When Chanel was caught at the middle of the night with Etienne she got fired again then she went and lived with Etienne she lived a luxurious life in his castle he always lavished on her buying her pearls, emeralds, diamonds and rubies, while she was living with him she began designing hats as a hobby, Balsan decided to give Chanel the money she needed to open up her own hat and dress shop in Paris. she soon left Etienne and took over his apartment in Paris

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