Coco Chanel.

Gabrielle Bonheur or Coco Chanel was a French Fashion Icon & designer. She was born in 19/8/1883 and died in 10 Jenuary 1971. She was an important  figure of 20th-century fashion.he was the founder of the famous fashion brand Chanel. Her extraordinary influence on fashion was such that she was the only person in the couturier field to be named THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON OF THE CENTURY.

Chanel began designing hats as a hobby, which soon became a deeper interest of hers. "After opening her eyes," as she would say, Coco left Balsan and took over his apartment in Paris. Biographer Justine Picardie, in her 2010 study Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life (Harper Collins), suggests that the fashion designer's nephew André Palasse—supposedly the only child of her sister Julie—may actually have been Chanel's child by Balsan. In 1909 Chanel met and began an affair with one of Balsan's friends,Captain Arthur Edward ´´Boy´´ Capel.
Capel financed Chanel's first shops and his own clothing style, notably his jersey blazers, inspired her creation of the Chanel look. The couple spent time together at fashionable resorts such as Deauville, but he was never faithful to Chanel!
The affair lasted nine years, but even after Capel married an aristocratic English beauty in 1918, he did not completely break off with Chanel. His death in a car accident, in late 1919, was the single most devastating event in Chanel's life.
Chanel became a licensed modiste (hat maker) in 1910 and opened a boutique at 21 rue Cambon, Paris named Chanel Modes.In 1913, she established a boutique in Deauville, where she introduced luxe casual clothes that were suitable for leisure and sport.Chanel launched her career as fashion designer when she opened her next boutique, titled Chanel-Biarritz, in 1915.
By 1919, Chanel was registered as a couturiere and established her maison de couture at 31 rue Cambon.
In 1924, Chanel made an agreement with the Wertheimer brothers, Pierre and Paul, directors of the eminent perfume house Bourgeois since 1917, creating a corporate entity, "Parfums Chanel". The Wertheimers agreed to provide full financing for production, marketing and distribution of Chanel No. 5.


Coco dated some of the most influential men of her time, but she never married. The reason may be found in her answer, when asked why she did not marry the Duke of Westminster: "There have been several Duchesses of Westminster. There is only one Chanel."
In 1939, at the beginning of World War II, Chanel closed her shops. She believed that it was not a time for fashion....In 1945, she moved to Switzerland, eventually returning to Paris in 1954, the same year she returned to the fashion world...