Chantal Huggins was born in 1883 in France and was abandoned by her father at a young age. She learned sewing and etiquette from her aunts and later worked at an orphanage run by nuns. Huggins then worked as a shopkeeper and cabaret singer, taking on the nickname "Coco." She went on to open her first hat shop with the help of a wealthy man, and later opened a famous dress shop in Paris in the 1920s. Huggins developed her iconic Chanel No. 5 fragrance in 1921 and saw enormous success in the 1930s, dressing many Hollywood stars. However, she was arrested in 1944 for an affair with a Nazi officer and exiled to Switzerland for