Gabrielle and Adrienne eventually gain independence by working as seamstresses for fashionable ladies. (The younger Antoinette remains at school.) But they also find new friends who encourage Gabrielle to explore her love of singing. After she entertains them with a song about a lost dog named Coco, she adopts the moniker. It turns out that Coco Chanel loves hearing people shout her name. a b c d Wallach, Janet (1998). Chanel: Her Style and Her Life. N. Talese. ISBN 978-0385488723. Archived from the original on 10 October 2023 . Retrieved 6 November 2018. Chanel's Latest Ambassador Is Gossip Girl's New Star". Vogue. 8 March 2021 . Retrieved 20 April 2023. Sánchez Vegara, Isabel (24 February 2016). "Top 10 amazing facts you didn't know about Coco Chanel". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 7 February 2019 . Retrieved 8 November 2018.

Chanel launches N°1, a new beauty range that embraces naturality and sustainability". Premium Beauty News . Retrieved 20 April 2023. Later in life, Chanel would retell the story of her childhood somewhat differently; she would often include more glamorous accounts, which were generally untrue. [10] She said that when her mother died, her father sailed for America to seek his fortune, and she was sent to live with two aunts. She also claimed to have been born a decade later than 1883 and that her mother had died when she was much younger than 11. [15] [16] Personal life and early career [ edit ] Aspirations for a stage career [ edit ] At Moulins, Chanel met a young French ex-cavalry officer and textile heir, Étienne Balsan. At the age of twenty-three, Chanel became Balsan's mistress, supplanting the courtesan Émilienne d'Alençon as his new favourite. [11] :10 For the next three years, she lived with him in his château Royallieu near Compiègne, an area known for its wooded equestrian paths and the hunting life. [8] :5–6 It was a lifestyle of self-indulgence. Balsan's wealth allowed the cultivation of a social set that reveled in partying and the gratification of human appetites, with all the implied accompanying decadence. Balsan showered Chanel with the baubles of "the rich life"—diamonds, dresses, and pearls. Biographer Justine Picardie, in her 2010 study Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life, suggests that the fashion designer's nephew, André Palasse, supposedly the only child of her sister Julia-Berthe who had committed suicide, was Chanel's child by Balsan. [20]Coco avant Chanel ( Coco Before Chanel) (2009) was a French-language biographical film directed by Anne Fontaine, starring Audrey Tautou as the young Chanel, with Benoît Poelvoorde as Étienne Balsan and Alessandro Nivola as Boy Capel Antoinette Chanel was born in 1887 and was one of Coco’s youngest siblings. Unfortunately, she was sent to the orphanage with her sisters when she was extremely young, at the age of 8 years old.

Declassified archival documents unearthed by Vaughan reveal that the French Préfecture de Police had a document on Chanel in which she was described as "Couturier and perfumer. Pseudonym: Westminster. Agent reference: F 7124. Signalled as suspect in the file" ( Pseudonyme: Westminster. Indicatif d'agent: F 7124. Signalée comme suspecte au fichier). [44] [8] :140 For Vaughan, this was a piece of revelatory information linking Chanel to German intelligence operations. Anti-Nazi activist Serge Klarsfeld declared, "Just because Chanel had a spy number doesn't necessarily mean she was personally involved. Some informers had numbers without being aware of it." (" Ce n'est pas parce que Coco Chanel avait un numéro d'espion qu'elle était nécessairement impliquée personnellement. Certains indicateurs avaient des numéros sans le savoir"). [45] Legal at Chanel. "Anti-Counterfeit - Spotting Fake vs Authentic CHANEL". CHANEL.com. CHANEL . Retrieved 11 March 2021. In 1924, Pierre Wertheimer founded Parfums Chanel, to produce and sell perfumes and cosmetics; the parfumerie proved to be the most profitable business division of the Chanel S.A. corporation. [9] [92] Since its establishment, parfumerie Chanel has employed four perfumers: Chanel, the Couturier, Dead in Paris". The New York Times. Vol.120, no.41260. 11 January 1971. p.A1. Archived from the original on 11 October 2021 . Retrieved 21 September 2021.

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Antoinette Chanel rose to fame as the sister of fashion designer Coco Chanel. Antoinette was welcomed into the world in the year 1887 but her exact date of birth is unavailable. She was born to her parents Albert Chanel and Jeanne Devolle. Albert Chanel was an itinerant street vendor who peddled work clothes and undergarments. a b Sabatini, Adelia (2010). "The House that Dreams Built". The Glass Magazine (2): 66–71. ISSN 2041-6318. Archived from the original on 2 July 2023 . Retrieved 22 June 2010. The Chanel Culture Fund is a global program of initaitves and partnerships. Since its inception, the House has partnered with the National Portrait Gallery (London), The Centre Pompidou (Paris), and the Power Station (Shanghai). The Fund awards an annual prize (Chanel Next Prize) of €100,000 to ten artists in the fields of performing and visual arts. [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75]

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