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COCO CHANEL
Coco Chanel (1883-1971) is the most famous fashion designer, and her work changed a lot women's fashion. She borrowed ideas from men's clothes and created clothes for modern women.Gabrielle Chanel was born in France, on August 19, 1883. The Chanel family did not have money, and they lived in a poor house in a narrow street. When Gabrielle was twelve, her mother died, and her fatherdisappeared. She had two sisters and two brothers, and she and her sisters went to an orphanage, and her brothers went to a farm and became child labourers. Gabrielle had been staying in theorphanage for six years. She was a fierce, pretty, and restless girl, and she knew that she was different from others. 
At the age of twelve, Coco Chanel's mother had died and her father had left. Her twoaunts raised her until the age of seventeen; Chanel was brought to live with the nuns in the Aubazine orphanage. There she developed feelings of loneliness and mental anguish. These themes would be withher throughout her adult life. The young Chanel desired nothing more in life than marriage and the love of a husband. Perhaps it was the lack of a "classic" familial system that caused theseunfulfilled dreams. But she forever changed the way women looked and the way women looked at themselves.
 Chanel would never marry nor would she have children. According to some rumours, Chanel was unable tohave children because of an abortion attempt in her youth. Chanel had many relationships with men in her lifetime. She had a love for men in high places. She dated a Russian Duke, an English Duke, anaristroct named Etienne Balsan, and a Nazi officer. Her love affair with the Nazi officer would get her exiled to Switzerland.
 Coco Chanel did not always dream of becoming a famous fashiondesigner. She danced, attempted to be an actress, sold hosiery, rode horses, dispensed mineral water, and worked as a cabaret singer. Coco Chanel opened her first millinery store in 1909 in Paris. With...