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	Gabrielle Chanel
		Gabrielle was born on August l9th 1883 in the hospital for the poor in the French village of Saumur.
		Chanel, the champion of beige and neutrals was repelled.
		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 (3298 words)

	Chanel biography
		Gabrielle’s parents were at last married in July 1884, and continued their wandering life, sometimes with the children and sometimes leaving them behind with anyone who was willing.
		Gabrielle found a job in one of these as a seamstress, but her evenings were spent enjoying life with the officers, who showed her the sights and took her to nightclubs.
		Gabrielle had by now discovered that displaying clothes on a live model had many advantages, and could be seen with her aunt Adrienne promenading on the pier, displaying her designs for all the fashionable ladies to see.
	www.ba-education.demon.co.uk /for/fashion/chanel.html (1679 words)

	Gabrielle Chanel Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (August 19, 1883 – January 10, 1971) was a pioneering French couturier whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her arguably the most important figure in the history of 20th-century fashion design.
		Two of her most famous creations are Chanel No. 5 perfume, launched in 1923, and the influential Chanel suit, an elegant suit comprised of a knee-length skirt and trim, boxy jacket, traditionally made of woven wool with fl trim and gold buttons and worn with large costume-pearl necklaces.
		Chanel was set up in business by a lover, Etienne Balsan, a French textile heir, and her love affairs with the artist Paul Iribe, the 2nd 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.
	www.greatartworks.com /search/encyclopedia/Gabrielle_Chanel (806 words)

	History of Chanel
		Gabrielle Chanel was born in 1883 in the hospital for the poor in France.
		Chanel's style was revolutionary in its simplicity, the materials she used to achieve that look and the accessories used to accentuate it.
		Chanel did not like suits that had to be worn with a closed jacket and her designs included jackets that looked good open or closed.
	www.designer99.com /pages/chanel.html (937 words)

	Le Firme UOMO/DONNA Canada - Fashion Consultants - History of Chanel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) was born in Saumur, Southern France.
		Chanel was often inspired by the everyday clothes worn by working people around her, borrowing from a mechanic's blouse, a ditchdigger's scarf, and the white collar and cuffs of a waitress for ideas.
		Chanel was the best designer of her time because, she liked to say, she had “lived the life of the century.” For women today, however, Chanel’s most enduring contribution rests on a simple, yet radical, proposition: She proved it was possible to be comfortable and chic at the same time.
	www.lefirme.com /designers_history/chanel.htm (1522 words)

	Coco Chanel
		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)

	The story of Chanel
		Coco Chanel entrusted the manufacture and the distribution of her perfumes to Pierre Wertheimer, a famous businessman (owner of the Bourjois Company).
		CHANEL N° 19 owes her name with the date of birth of Coco Chanel, this fragrance was composed by the successor of Ernest Beaux, Henri Robert.
		CHANEL N° 19 was launched on 19 August 1970, the day of the 87th anniversary of Coco Chanel, she died a few months later.
	mesparfums.free.fr /historique/chanel/chanel.en.php (592 words)

	Clothing Consignment from Designer Resale Clothing- Women's and Men's Clothing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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.resaleclothing.net /Chanel-clothing-accessories.htm (521 words)

	Rutger Hauer Official Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although she rebelled against the strict rules of the orphanage, she was destined to stay there until she was 18 years of age.
		Gabrielle moves her business to Deauville and by war's end, her enormous success and reputation as “Coco” Chanel is such that she is able to open her first “salon” at 21 rue Cambon, in Paris.
		Chanel, with friends and lovers in high places, even helped plot Winston Churchill's peace-making moves with Germany towards the end of the Second World War.
	www.rutgerhauer.org /filmography/chane.php (690 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Chanel (The Universe of Fashion) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chanel: More than any other designer of her time, Gabrielle Chanel had a genius for perceiving not only what would work in contemporary fashion but also what would last.
		Yet Chanel was a true adventuress, always on the cutting edge and sure of her likes and dislikes, which combined to make the 20th century look the way it did.
		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.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0789300648?v=glance (1214 words)

	Ina: Zoom on (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gabrielle Chanel did not particularly appreciate this nickname, but it stuck nevertheless and there was nothing she could do about it.
		After a couple of months of euphoria during which Gabrielle felt she was on the verge of fame, the limits of her success started to show.
		According to Chanel, it was the silhouette taken as a whole that took precedence.
	www.ina.fr /actualite/dossiers/2002/Octobre2002.light.en.html (1370 words)

	Gabrielle Chanel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Popularly known as Coco Chanel or Mademoiselle by her inner circle, she was born Gabrielle BonheurChanel in the small city of Saumur, France.
		Two of her most famous creations the Chanel No. 5 perfume, launched in 1923 and still a classic fragrance today, and the Chanel suit, actually a whole lookfor women: an elegant outfit with boxy lines, made of pastel pink wool with fl trim and gold buttons, worn with largecostume-pearl necklaces.
		The nickname Coco was evidently acquired at La Rotonde, a cafe frequented bymembers of a French cavalry regiment and numerous of the great artists who flocked to Paris' Montparnasse section at the turn of the 20th century.
	www.therfcc.org /gabrielle-chanel-51751.html (320 words)

	Kim Wilde Encyclopedia: Chanel no. 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gabrielle met Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich in Biarritz when they were both on holiday there.
		Gabrielle left the mixing of the ingredients to Ernest Beaux, but she made the final decisions about the finished product, sampling it several times before deciding on the perfume that she thought reflected the image she wanted to portray.
		Parfums Chanel was founded in 1924, run by Pierre and Paul Wertheimer, and with Ernest Beaux as its technical director.
	www.kimwilde.com /kwe/chanel.html (526 words)

	Chanel Superstore - Coco Chanel Clothing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel Born: 1883 Chanel is considered the...
		Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was born in 1883 outside Paris, France, in a region called Auvergne.
		Customer Review: Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel is adequately profiled in this book; from her very humble beginnings to her rise and fall -- and rise again -- this is an insightful biography of the woman and her work, which were for all intents and purposes inseparable.
	chanel-depot.com /cocochanelclothing.html (768 words)

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		In her Paris stu dio, established in 1914, Chanel with her small, boyish figure was the prototype of the fashionable woman in postwar Paris The new look expressed women's new freedom.
		Chanel felt it was smart to look neither feminine nor rich; to her, clothes were not as important as one's style.
		Chanel herself stated, "Always dress to make yourself feel young."' She was also the first to make high-fashion pants, popularizing the new category of sportswear for informal occasions.
	www.geocities.com /FashionAvenue/3105/trendsetter1.html (201 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 (487 words)

	TOP DESIGNERS (Gabrielle Chanel) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With help from various moneyed lovers, Chanel opened boutiques of Paris’s Rue Cambon and in the casino town of Deauville before World War I. Chanel would be among the first to acknowledge that it was the war that made her such a success.
		Chanel No. 5 came out in 1921, the perfume that Marilyn Monroe later famously said was the only thing she wore to bed.
		The Chanel house was left to slide for the next twelve years until Karl Lagerfield took over in 1983.
	www.it.murdoch.edu.au /units/ICT108/b108ftp/old_projects/MaryamKhan/tdesigner3.html (481 words)

	Notebook
		Chanel showed that innovations can be basic, that the casual can be elegant, that to be modern is not so much to measure oneself against current obsessions as to measure against past excellence.
		Coco Chanel was a woman with a scathing tongue, who was always that fierce little thirteen year-old of sudden fury, sly grins, and a desperate need to be loved.
		By the time Gabrielle was eleven, the life on the road, poverty, and constant pregnancies--another son named Augustin for Jeanne's uncle in Corpière died in infancy--had ruined Jeanne's {Chanel's mother's] health.
	www.noteaccess.com /PEOPLE/Chanel.htm (1607 words)

	Gabrielle Chanel
		Gabrielle Chanel, dite Coco, est connue pour avoir, en 1916, donné un nouveau tournant à la mode.
		Née en France, en 1883, Jeanne Gabrielle Chanel, à l'âge de 12 ans, est confiée à un orphelinat près de Brive, où elle vivra jusqu'à l'âge de 19 ans.
		Malheureusement, mademoiselle Chanel meurt en 1971, à; l'âge de 88 ans en disant: "Vous voyez, c'est comme cela qu'on meurt..." Elle meurt ainsi donc en laissant un empire derrière elle.
	www.momes.net /dictionnaire/c/chanelgabrielle.html (637 words)

	Gabrielle Chanel Biography and profiles of fashion designers
		Chanel is a member of Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture et du Pret-a-Porter.
		The Chanel group is controlled by the Wertheimer family through various investment holdings (Litor Ltd., Pamerco).
		The new Chanel daughter "Eres" achieved in 1996 sales worth of 60 million Francs ($12 million) and boasts earnings of 7.2 million ($1.4 million).
	www.infomat.com /whoswho/gabriellechanel.html (565 words)

	Gabrielle chanel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
		Chanel is considered the most significant designer of the 20th century.
		She introduced the little fl dress, sweater sets, the pleated skirt, triangular scarves, and fake pearl necklaces; she pioneered the use of knit jersey as a fashion fabric; and she produced the first artificial suntan lotion.
		Chanel was also famous for changing fl from a color of mourning to a color of elegance.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0906902.html (214 words)

	Gabrielle Chanel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Popularly known as Coco Chanel or Mademoiselle by her inner circle was born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel in the small city of Saumur France.
		She would become of the most influential figures in haute in the 20th century helping to create what is considered Fashion today.
		The nickname Coco was evidently acquired at La Rotonde a cafe frequented by members of French cavalry regiment and numerous of the artists who flocked to Paris' Montparnasse section at the turn of the century.
	www.freeglossary.com /Gabrielle_Chanel (512 words)

	Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) and the House of Chanel \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born in Saumur, in the Loire Valley of France, Chanel survived an impoverished childhood and strict convent education.
		The Chanel suit became a status symbol for a new generation, made of solid or tweed fabric, with its slim skirt and collarless jacket trimmed in braid, gold buttons, patch pockets, and—sewn into the hem—a gold-colored chain ensuring it hung properly from the shoulders.
		Nonetheless, Lagerfeld's ability to continuously mine the Chanel archive for inspiration testifies to the importance of Gabrielle Chanel's contributions to women's fashion in the twentieth century.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/chnl/hd_chnl.htm (1127 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)

	Gabrielle Chanel
		Even the famous Chanel suits were woven in coloured threads on tulle, in pale gemstone shades.
		As always he took Gabrielle Chanel's creations such as the tweed suit, but made his tweed fabric as light as a feather.
		Karl Lagerfeld was called on for lots of Chanel gowns for the Oscar evening including Kirsten Dunst shown here on the left, and Vanessa Paradis shown here on the right with her husband Johnny Depp who was nominated for best actor.
	www.designerhistory.com /historyofashion/chaneltwo.html (1694 words)

	CHANEL - Prêt-a-Porter, Fall/Winter 99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chanel is also one of the oldest fashion houses still active.
		In Gabrielle Chanel, women finally found their most knowing partner.
		Mademoiselle Chanel daringly imposed a new language of elegance.
	members.tripod.com /ves1904/chanel/chanel.htm (78 words)

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