Designer Coco Chanel was born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel in 1883, although she would later claim that her real date of birth was 1893, making her ten years younger.
Her place of birth was also something that she sought to disguise. Coco was born in the workhouse in the Loire Valley where her unmarried mother worked, although she asserted that she was born in Auvergne.
Her mother died when she was six years old, leaving her father with five children, whom he quickly farmed out to various relatives. The young Chanel was sent to the orphanage of the Catholic monastery of Aubazine, where she learned the trade of a seamstress.
School vacations were spent with relatives in the provincial capital of Moulins where Gabrielle learnt to sew with more flourish than the nuns at the monastery had been able to teach her. When she turned 18, she left the orphanage, and took up work for a local tailor.
Later, when questioned, Chanel would claim that when her mother died, her father sailed for America and she was sent to live with two cold-hearted spinster aunts. She even claimed to have been born in 1893 as opposed to 1883, and that her mother had died when Coco was six instead of 12. All this was done to diminish the stigma that poverty, orphanhood, and illegitimacy bestowed upon unfortunates in 19th-century France.
It was during a brief stint as a singer in cafés and concert halls that Gabrielle adopted the name Coco, a nickname given to her by local soldiers who went to watch her.
World War I led her to move to the resort town of Deauvile, where Chanel became the mistress of a rich ex-military officer and textile heir called Etienne Balsan in 1908. At the age of 23, she became his mistress and moved into his chateau, where she lived for three years. It was here that she started designing and creating hats as a diversion, which then turned into a commercial venture.
She then started a relationship with a wealthy English Industrialist called Arthur Edward 'Boy' Capel who was a friend of Balsan. He installed her into a Parisian apartment and financed her first shops. The relationship lasted nine years, even after Capel married in 1918.
Through the patronage and connections that these men provided she was able to open her own millinery shop in Paris in 1910 and she soon had boutiques in both Deauville and Biarritz. In 1919, the single most devastating event of her life occurred when Capel was killed in a car accident. She commissioned a roadside memorial at the site of the accident.
Twenty-five years after the event, she told a friend: "His death was a terrible blow to me. In losing Capel, I lost everything. What followed was not a life of happiness I have to say."
โคโค่ชาแนลที่ออกเกิดชาแนล Gabrielle Bonheur 1883 แม้ว่าเธอจะในภายหลังอ้างว่า วันเกิดของเธอแท้จริงคือ 1893 ทำสิบปีเธออายุสถานที่เกิดของเธอยังสิ่งที่เธอพยายามที่จะปลอมตัว โคโคที่เกิดในโรงทำงานในลัวร์ที่แม่ของเธอยังไม่ได้ทำงาน ถึงแม้ว่าเธอคนที่ เธอเกิดใน Auvergneแม่ของเธอเสียชีวิตเมื่อเธออายุ 6 ปีออกจากพ่อของเธอกับเด็กห้า ซึ่งเขาได้อย่างรวดเร็ว farmed ออกไปญาติต่าง ๆ ชาแนลหนุ่มถูกส่งไปที่มูลนิธิสงเคราะห์เด็กของอารามคาทอลิกของ Aubazine ซึ่งเธอได้เรียนรู้การค้าขายของช่างเย็บวันหยุดโรงเรียนได้ใช้เวลากับญาติในเมืองหลวงของจังหวัดของ Moulins ที่กาเบรียลเรียนเย็บผ้ากับอวดกว่าชีในอารามที่เคยสอนเธอ เมื่อเธอเปิด 18 เธอซ้ายนิธิ และเอาค่างานยังท้องถิ่นภายหลัง เมื่อไต่สวน ชาแนลจะเรียกร้องว่า เมื่อแม่ของเธอเสียชีวิต บิดาของเธอแล่นในอเมริกา และเธอถูกส่งไปอยู่กับสอง cold-hearted spinster aunts เธอได้อ้างว่า มีการเกิดใน 1893 จำกัด 1883 และแม่ของเธอเสียชีวิตเมื่อโคโค่หกแทน 12 ทั้งหมดนี้เสร็จหรี่ภาพดอกไม้ความยากจนที่ orphanhood และ illegitimacy ยศ unfortunates ในศตวรรษที่ 19 ประเทศฝรั่งเศสได้ระหว่าง stint ย่อเป็นนักร้องในคาเฟ่และคอนเสิร์ตฮอลล์ว่า กาเบรียลนำชื่อโคโค่ ฉายาให้กับเธอ โดยเฉพาะทหารที่ไปดูของเธอWorld War I led her to move to the resort town of Deauvile, where Chanel became the mistress of a rich ex-military officer and textile heir called Etienne Balsan in 1908. At the age of 23, she became his mistress and moved into his chateau, where she lived for three years. It was here that she started designing and creating hats as a diversion, which then turned into a commercial venture.She then started a relationship with a wealthy English Industrialist called Arthur Edward 'Boy' Capel who was a friend of Balsan. He installed her into a Parisian apartment and financed her first shops. The relationship lasted nine years, even after Capel married in 1918.Through the patronage and connections that these men provided she was able to open her own millinery shop in Paris in 1910 and she soon had boutiques in both Deauville and Biarritz. In 1919, the single most devastating event of her life occurred when Capel was killed in a car accident. She commissioned a roadside memorial at the site of the accident.Twenty-five years after the event, she told a friend: "His death was a terrible blow to me. In losing Capel, I lost everything. What followed was not a life of happiness I have to say."
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