Coco Chanel was a famous French fashion designer known for her timeless designs like the Chanel suit and little black dress. She was raised in an orphanage and taught to sew. In 1910, she opened her first shop in Paris selling hats and later added clothing. One of her early successes was a dress made from an old jersey that many women asked her to recreate. Chanel launched her first perfume in the 1920s and introduced iconic designs still popular today. She never married and died in 1971 at the Hotel Ritz in Paris.

1. Fashion Designer-Coco Chanel
Raluca-Ioana DOBROSLAV, MIEADR IEA, GROUP 8105
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STUDENTS’ SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM
USAMV MIEADR 2015
With her trademark suits and little black dresses,
fashion designer Coco Chanel created timeless
designs that are still popular today.
•Biography
Fashion designer Coco Chanel, born August 19,
1883, in Saumur, France, is famous for her timeless
designs, trademark suits, and little black dresses.
Chanel was raised in an orphanage and taught to
sew. She had a brief career as a singer before
opening her first clothes shop in 1910.
In the 1920s, she launched her first perfume and
introduced the Chanel suit and the little black dress.
• Life as designer
Opening her first shop on Paris’s Rue Cambon in
1910, Chanel started out selling hats. She later
added stores in Deauville and Biarritz and began
making clothes.
Her first taste of clothing success came from a
dress she fashioned out of an old jersey on a chilly
day. In response to the many people who asked
about where she got the dress, she offered to make
one for them.
“My fortune is built on that old jersey that I’d put on
because it was cold in Deauville,” she once told
author Paul Morand.
Coco Chanel died on January 10, 1971, at her
apartment in the Hotel Ritz. She never married,
having once said “I never wanted to weigh more
heavily on a man than a bird.”
In addition to the longevity of her designs, Chanel’s life story continues to captivate people’s
attention. There have been several biographies of the fashion revolutionary, including Chanel and
Her World (2005) written by her friend Edmonde Charles-Roux.
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