Coco Chanel was a French fashion designer born in 1883. She was orphaned at a young age and spent six years in an orphanage where she learned to sew. She went on to open her first hat shop in 1909 with financing from her lover Étienne Balsan. Her career flourished and she opened her first boutique in Paris in 1910. Some of her most famous designs included the "little black dress" and introducing pants for women. However, she also faced controversy for her reported collaboration with German intelligence during World War II. Chanel died alone in her Paris apartment in 1971 at age 87.

1. COCO CHANEL:
Laura Martínez Da Cuña

2. His life:
• He was born on August 19, 1883.
• In France.
• When he was 12 years old, his
mother died of tuberculosis and
his father left his family.
• Because of this, the young Chanel
spent six years in the orphanage
where she learned the job of
seamstress.

3. • His dramatic love life would not
appear until he left the orphanage at
age 18.
• She met Étienne Balsan. It is said
that he was the first person who
helped her to open her hat shop.
• Then, she met Arthur "Boy" Capel
and she decided to leave Balsan,
because of her possible promotion
in the world of fashion.
Some relationships:

4. Beginning of her career:
• Chanel used to wear her own
creations to horse races and drew
the attention of the people with
her peculiar style of dressing.
• He became a hat maker in 1909
and opened a boutique financed by
Balsan on the ground floor of her
apartment.
• The following year, she set up his
fashion house, Chanel Modes, at
number 21 on rue Cambon in Paris.

5. • Her career as a millionaire
flourished when the theater
actress Gabrielle Dorziat wore her
models in the Bel Ami play.
• In 1913, she opened a boutique
financed by Arthur Capel in
Deauville, where she introduced
luxury casual clothes for leisure
time and sports.

6. Coco Chanel’s
inventions:
• The"little black dress“:
• This element brought fame to the
designer.
• It was not accepted so easily, since
at that time the black color was
reserved for widows.
• Many women gladly accepted
wearing this tone, since the design
was elegant and somber.

7. • Both Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent
were the first designers who
designed pants for women.
• For Chanel, the reasons that led her
to use this garment were the desire
for freedom and comfort.
• The designer did not invent them and
she wasn’t the first woman to wear
them. But she gave pants the
feminine touch that they needed and
spread them around the world.
The designer who wore trousers:

8. COLLABORATION WITH THE MILITARY NAZIS
IN THE WAR:
• Chanel was more than just
a sympathizer and
collaborator of the Nazis.
• She was a numbered agent
of the Nazis who worked
for the Abwehr, the
German military
intelligence agency

9. Cinema and TV:
• The first film about the designer was
Chanel solitaria (1981),
• The American television movie Coco
Chanel was released on 13 September
2008
• They were about her first years in the
convent, her romances with Balsan and
Capel, her first years of professional
career and her controversial return to
fashion in 1954. However, they did not
talk about her collaboration in the Nazi
military operations during World War II .

10. Death:
• She died on January 10, 1971 alone in her
apartment located in the Ritz hotel
• She was 87 years old. Chanel had gone for
a walk and when she got back to the hotel
she was watching television while they
were preparing her dinner. His personal
servant was with her . Chanel made him
turn off the TV, lay on the bed for a while
and called his servant but she had a heart
attack.
• Chanel was buried in Switzerland.

11. My personal opinion:
I think that Coco Chanel was one of the most advanced women for her
times because despite all the criteria of the time she managed to form
a great and very powerful empire.
I also think she was a very powerful woman in the First and Second
World War.
Today, the Chanel brand is probably one of the most recognized brands
worldwide.
In conclusion, I really admire Coco Chanel as a person, her legacy, and
all the great changes she made, not only through fashion, and
especially for women.

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