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	Coco Chanel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coco Chanel also popularized the little fl dress, whose blank-slate versatility allowed it to be worn for day and evening, depending on how it was accessorized.
		The nickname Coco was evidently acquired at La Rotonde, a cafe frequented by members of a French cavalry regiment and many of the artists who flocked to Paris' Montparnasse section at the turn of the 20th century.
		Chanel was set up in business by a paramour, Étienne Balsan, a French textile heir, and her romantic affairs with the artist Paul Iribe, the Duke of Westminster, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia, and British sportsman Boy Capel all had a considerable influence on the stylistic evolution of her often male-inspired fashions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gabrielle_Chanel (761 words)

	Coco Chanel - MSN Encarta
		Coco Chanel, real name Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (1883-1971), French fashion designer and one of the leaders of haute couture (high fashion), whose name was synonymous with elegance and chic.
		By the mid-1920s she had launched the classic Chanel look, consisting of a casual but extremely well-cut wool jersey suit with straight, collarless cardigan jacket and short, full-cut skirt, worn with art deco costume jewelry and a sailor hat over short hair.
		Chanel designed nothing during World War II and its aftermath, but she successfully revived the understated Chanel look in 1954.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559798/Chanel_Coco.html (168 words)

	Gabrielle Chanel
		Chanel was going to be part of a fashion revolution, not just in the radical simplicity of her style but even in the materials she used to achieve it and particularly the accessories she used.
		Chanel was determined to "rid women of their frills from head to toe" and said "each frill discarded makes one look younger" It was Chanel who attended the races at Deauville where other women appeared in silks and laces, wearing a Shetland sweater and pearls.
		Chanel was the first to sense this and the first to respond with the neat chic of her sweaters, trimmed with crisp white collars, her 'little' knitted suits and here 'little' fl dresses.
	www.designerhistory.com /historyofashion/chanel.html (3313 words)

	The Biography Channel - Coco Chanel Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Coco was born in the workhouse where her mother worked, although she asserted that she was born in Auvergne.
		Coco became the mistress of a rich military officer, and then a wealthy English Industrialist, and the patronage and connections that these men provided her with enabled her to open her own millinery shop in Paris in 1910.
		Coco Chanel became the first designer to use jersey during the 1920s, and her relaxed, mannish clothes for women soon became very popular with clients, who were tired of the corseted fashions of previous decades.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/307:0/Coco_Chanel.htm (445 words)

	Berufskolleg Humboldtstr Koeln - Timeline Fashion - Coco Chanel
		Coco Chanel has revolutionised the garments for women, and created a new feeling for harmony, because she didn’t emphasise the waist line.
		Chanel continued her style consistently, designed simple jersey dresses, sporty jersey costumes, jumpers and pleated skirts, which were nearly knee length.
		Coco Chanel created the little fl dress“, which became famous in the 1950ies and is remarkable for its plain elegance.
	www.timelinefashion.de /designer/chanel.htm (896 words)

	Coco Chanel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Chanel said, "I make fashion women can live in, breath in, feel comfortable in and look younger in." The concept of her fashion was the antithesis of the concept of high fashion in the past.
		Chanel lost her parents when she was young, and she did not spent childhood in a rich and elegant environment.
		Chanel knew that she was different from others, so it is important to believe in yourself and try hard to make your dreams come true.
	www.wc.pdx.edu /chanel/chanel.html (673 words)

	Transcriptions Topics: Artists of Information: Coco Chanel and Fashion
		Coco Chanel, a name synonymous with simplistic style and undeniable class, was one of the most influential fashion designers of the Twentieth Century worldwide.
		For over fifty years, Coco was considered to be the "Grande Mademoiselle" of the fashion and society scene (Haedrich, Introduction.) Although she passed away in 1971, her undeniable influence on fashion and women’s role in society will continue to exist for many years to come.
		Throughout the years, Coco Chanel continued to be an icon to many women and men alike, largely because she embodied femininity and beauty, yet remained truly independent and successful in her own right.
	transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu /archive/topics/infoart/chanel (1166 words)

	biography of coco chanel
		According to some rumors, Chanel was unable to have children because of a botched abortion attempt in her youth.
		This says quite a lot about Chanel that she was able to turn a small boutique that employed two teenage girls into one of the most profitable fashion houses of all time.
		Coco Chanel was an entrepreneur who was determined to break old formulas and invent new ways of expressing herself.
	www.angelfire.com /ne/lliegirls/chanel.html (756 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: Chanel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is the authority and mastery of her work, the resonance of her image of the modern woman as articulated in her designs, and the autobiographical infusion of influences in her collections that finally confirms her iconic stature.
		Through his interpretations and refinements, the historic importance of Chanel is both defined and asserted for the modern woman and the world in which she lives.
		Chanel not only established the canon of modern dress, but she determined a typology of clothing styles, such as beach and evening pajamas, the chemise dress, the little fl dress, the two- or three-piece suit, and evening dress that combined both tailoring and dressmaking practices.
	www.metmuseum.org /special/chanel/chanel_more.htm (1086 words)

	COCO CHANEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Coco Chanel was born August 19, 1883, an orphan, in Saumur.
		Coco Chanel designed the unpretentious bottle, very much in tune with her times, dans l’air du temps.
		Coco reproduced the baroque atmosphere of Coco’s apartment on rue Cambon, with gilded mirrors and lacquered screens.
	www.parisiana.com /article.php3?id_article=99 (912 words)

	Chanel Perfume at 99PERFUME. All Original Chanel fragrances
		She claimed a birthdate of 1893 and a birthplace of Auvergne; she was actually born in 1883 in Saumur - her mother worked in the poorhouse where Gabrielle was born, and died when Gabrielle was only six, leaving her father with five children whom he promptly abandoned to the care of relatives.
		Coco Chanel introduced her signature cardigan jacket in 1925 and signature ""little fl dress"" in 1926.
		She briefly served as a nurse in World War I. Nazi occupation meant the fashion business in Paris was cut off for some years; Chanel's affair during World War II with a Nazi officer also resulted in some years of diminished popularity and an exile of sorts to Switzerland.
	www.99perfume.com /designer/Chanel.html (519 words)

	information site
		Coco Chanel (1883-1971) is the test famous fashion designer, and her work changed women's fashion.
		With the creation of COCO MADEMOISELLE in 2001, Jacques Polge reaffirms the modernity of the young Coco Chanel, who overturned convention with the pure and simple lines of her inimitable style.
		abrielle "Coco" Chanel was born in 1883 outside Paris, France, in a region called Auvergne.
	www.baantax.nl /coco_chanel_clothing.html (221 words)

	Coco Chanel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1921 Chanel No. 5 perfume was introduced by Chanel.
		Pierre Wertheimer became her partner in the perfume business in 1924.
		However, she spent her latter years in Lausanne, Switzerland, she died in Paris and is buried there in a tomb surrounded by five stone lions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coco_Chanel (761 words)

	Coco Chanel
		Coco was completely in charge of the material that they used and the designs they made.
		Then Chanel introduced the " little fl dress." (http://www.Missouri.edu/~c6764532chanel12.html) The Chanel style is synonymous for the classic knit and cardigan ensemble, and the "little fl dress" firmly established as the basis for each new collection.
		Coco announced on February 5, 1954, that she was to have a show of her first collection since the war.
	www.richeast.org /htwm/CHANEL/CC.HTML (1482 words)

	Chanel, Coco - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Her fashion empire ranged from Chanel suits and quilted handbags with chains to costume jewelry and a textile house.
		Ode to Coco: Karl Lagerfeld on the mystique of Coco Chanel; on the eve of the metropolitan museum of art's costume institute exhibition, Karl Lagerfeld, the heir to fashion's most enduring icon, opens up to Bazaar on his predecessor's legacy and why the archive is a constant source of inspiration.(FASHION ICON)
		Fashion & Style: Sweet smell of success; It's more than 80 years since Coco Chanel launched her first fragrance and revolutionised the world of perfume.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-chanel-c1.html (350 words)

	Gabrielle Chanel Biography and profiles of fashion designers
		Chanel was famous for popularizing practical clothes, including pants for women, little fl dresses, and box-like collarless jackets with bias edging and brass buttons.
		Chanel's business was interrupted by World War I and again in 1939 at the beginning of World War II, after which it did not reopen until 1953.
		Chanel keeps a very low profile on its economic figures, but sales in 1995 were estimated at over $1 billion, for 1995 sales are believed to have risen to nearly $2 billion.
	www.infomat.com /whoswho/gabriellechanel.html (574 words)

	Coco Chanel: Innovator and Icon
		Despite the fact that Chanel did not have the breeding of the upper class, in 1912 she met the wealthy socialite, Arthur "Boy" Capel who helped her open her first hat shop in 1913.
		In 1939 after the fall of Paris, Chanel closed her boutiques and spent the next fifteen years of her life living in Switzerland exiled, due to her love affair with a Nazi officer.
		A classic quilted Chanel handbag with the CC logo and gold shoulder would hang over the shoulder, and Chanel's trademark two-tone pumps or ballet flats would be worn on the feet.
	www.coololdstuff.com /coco.html (929 words)

	TIME 100: Artist & Entertainers - Coco Chanel
		Her innovations were basic to the wardrobes of generations of women: jersey suits and dresses, the draped turban, the chemise, pleated skirts, the jumper, turtleneck sweaters, the cardigan suit, the blazer, the little fl dress, the sling pump, strapless dresses, the trench coat.
		Sometimes, the determining factor was practicality: Chanel wore bell-bottom trousers in Venice, the better to climb in and out of gondolas and started the pants revolution.
		Born outside Paris in 1883, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (never called anything but Coco for "Little Pet") was orphaned at six and raised in the desolate province of Auvergne by two aunts.
	www.time.com /time/time100/artists/profile/chanel_related.html (356 words)

	Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
		Everything about Gabrielle Chanel was unique, even the way she got her nickname ‘Coco.’ In 1905 she performed the song ‘Qui qu’ a vu Coco dans le Trocadero’ at a music hall called La Rotonde, where men in uniform thought she was unlike any other women they had ever saw before.
		The first sign that Chanel was an innovator was when friends began to adore the hats that she made for herself.
		Chanel was constantly creating chaos in the fashion world, but she didn’t care.
	www.factio-magazine.com /Designers/des_GabrielleCocoChanel.htm (479 words)

	TIME 100: Coco Chanel
		Coco Chanel in 1934 as she appeared at a Paris sidewalk cafe
		The way, 75 years ago, she mixed up the vocabulary of male and female clothes and created fashion that offered the wearer a feeling of hidden luxury rather than ostentation are just two examples of how her taste and sense of style overlap with today's fashion.
		Chanel would not have defined herself as a feminist — in fact, she consistently spoke of femininity rather than of feminism — yet her work is unquestionably part of the liberation of women.
	www.time.com /time/time100/artists/profile/chanel.html (321 words)

	Amazon.ca: Chanel: Books: Francois Baudot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 1930's photographs of Chanel are classic, and her resurgance in the late 1950's and early 1960's was nothing less than spectcular.
		She discreetly recognizes Karl Lagerfeld for breathing new life into Gabrielle Chanel's classic designs.The magnificent photos and drawings are reflective of this progression and provide the reader with a visual timeline.As with the entire "Universe of Fashion" series, this book is definitely a keeper.
		There is no new information about Mademoiselle Chanel and the already well-known history of her life is so obtusely written the text seems like an outline of a romance novel.
	www.amazon.ca /Chanel-Francois-Baudot/dp/0789300648 (629 words)

	Coco Chanel : Fashion & Beauty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born in 1883 as Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel and raised in a French orphanage, the well-known designer was not in fact part of the aristocracy, as many have said in the past.
		By the early 1930s, Chanel's reputation had grown enormously and in 1931 she was paid one million dollars by Samuel Goldwin to dress the stars of many of his movies: Kathrine Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor et al.
		But despite her passing on, Coco Chanel is to this day one of the most revered women in fashion design lore.
	www.webwombat.com.au /lifestyle/fashion_beauty/coco.htm (594 words)

	Coco Chanel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1908 Chanel started her fashion career in a shop in Paris as a milliner.
		Later, Chanel opened her own boutiques in Deauville and Biarritz.
		Chanel closed her house in 1939 and spent time in Switzerland.
	www.paralumun.com /fashionchanel.htm (36 words)

	Coco Chanel Handbag - Local Discounted Coco Chanel Handbag Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Founded by Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel in 1909, Chanel the Paris fashion house was born.
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	www.leatherbagsonline.com /handbags/coco-chanel-handbag.php (763 words)

	Coco Chanel - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Starting with a Paris hat shop in 1914, Coco Chanel went on to become one of the biggest names in the fashion industry.
		In the mid-1920s her trademark suit-and-hat ensemble became the Chanel look.
		While she created little new work in the period during and after World War II, her name remained associated with haute couture (high fashion).
	encarta.msn.com /media_461522985/Coco_Chanel.html (67 words)

	Coco Chanel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After having established her house of couture in Paris, Chanel became highly noted for simple jersey dresses and suits; perfumes; fl or gray pullovers with white piqué collars and cuffs; box-jacket suits; costume jewelry; knit suits; trousers for women; textiles; and clothing generally designed for comfort.
		Her signature perfume was introduced in 1922, Chanel No. 5, which continues to make profits for Chanel’s company this very day.
		Chanel made a comeback in 1954 in which she introduced the Chanel suit and purses as well as pea jackets and bell bottom pants for women.
	thienai.myweb.uga.edu /projectpage.html (361 words)

	Coco Chanel
		An orphan, Chanel was raised by two aunts who taught her to sew.
		Chanel popularized wool jersey cardigan jackets, little fl dresses, costume jewelry, knee-length skirts, and low-heeled shoes.
		Chanel continued her trademark work until her death in 1971 when Philippe Guiborge took over her design house, producing the same classic looks until 1977.
	www.msstate.edu /school/humansciences/HistoricCostumes/page3.html (152 words)

	NPR : The Timeless Appeal of Coco Chanel
		She used soft tweeds, sewed braid along the edge of jackets, put white fabric camillias on lapels, made purses of quilted leather and flened the toes of her beige sling-back shoes.
		For instance, a daysuit created two years ago with a typical Chanel cardigan jacket, outlined at the neck and waistline, of wool boucle in ivory and beige, with shots of coral.
		The Chanel exhibit continues at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York through August.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4630900 (381 words)

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