Coco Chanel

Costume & Make-Up

Born: 1883-08-19 · Saumur, Pays de la Loire

Gabriel Bonheur Chanel (Coco) was born in 1883. When her mother died Coco was only twelve years old.  Her father abandons her and her siblings in the largest orphanage of the region, a convent in Aubazine. She started working in Moulins as a shop girl with a local milliner and the age of twenty-five…