Coco Chanel was a French fashion designer who revolutionized women's fashion in the early 20th century. She designed simple, comfortable clothing that freed women from restrictive corsets and popularized casual styles like skirt suits and trousers. Chanel also launched a popular perfume called Chanel No. 5 and helped establish the modern image of an active, liberated woman through her designs and personal style. Her influence extended beyond fashion into hair, accessories, and perfumes, and she became a symbol for modern women in the 20th century.

1. Coco Chanel
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2. Coco Chanel
• Gabrielle Bonheur (1883 - 1971)
French dressmaker who
revolutionized fashion and the world
of haute couture.
• Her informal and comfortable line
freed the female body of corsets and
expressed the aspirations of freedom
and equality of the woman of the
twentieth century.

3. Coco Chanel
• She became the great lady of French
fashion, her influence would extend
beyond the world of fashion, from the
haircut to perfumes, through shoes
and accessories.
• Chanel became a symbol of modern,
active and liberated women. And the
image of Chanel herself was admired
and imitated by millions of women.

4. Biography
• They delivered her to a house of nuns,
where she learned to sew. Two years
later, she started singing in a cabaret.
• She moved to Paris and thanks to the
contribution of her lovers,
she opened her first store "Modas
Chanel".

5. Biography
• Gabrielle replaced the ornate fashion
that was used at the time by simple
designs.
• In 1920 she launched her perfume,
Chanel N. 5, quickly becoming the
best-selling perfume of all time.

6. Personal style
• She made the skirts shorter and
encouraged the women to cut their
hair.
• In this style she made sailor-style
pleated skirts, low-waisted dresses,
beach pajamas and feminine trousers.
• She launched the famous bag with
golden chains.

7. Biography
• After her death, the Chanel house
was able to recover its former
splendor.
• The firm launched Coco, and Egoïste,
an essence for man that managed to
dominate the market during the last
years of the 20th century.

8. Some of her famous quotes
"The best things in life are free.
The second best are very expensive."
"I don´t do fashion,
I am fashion."