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OUTLINE

• Childhood & life• Her beginins• Famous creations - Clothes(little black dress,cardigan

jacket) - Parfume ( Chanel nº5)• Her death• Some questions

COCO CHANEL, HER REAL LIFE

• Name: Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel /

• Date of birth: 1893 /

• place of birth: Loire Valley/

Coco

1883

Auvergne

CHILDHOOD

• Her mother died when she was six years old

• Chanel was sent to an orphanage • School vacations were spent with

relatives• When she turned eighteen, she left

the orphanage, and took up work by a local tailor.

HER BEGININS

• First World War: move to Deauville • In Deauville: mistress of a rich

military officer / wealthy English Industrialist

• She open her own millinery shop in Paris in 1910

• Boutiques in Deauville and Biarritz.

CHANEL Nº5 • Created in: 1922• Two years later Pierre

Wertheimer became her business partner and her lover

• The Wertheimers continue to control the perfume company today.

• The reason of the name:

the fifth testhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTO4FHf8MBs&feature=fvst&noredirect=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTO4FHf8MBs&feature=fvst

CLOTHING

• 1925 Chanel launched her signature cardigan jacket.

• 1926 : Chanel launched the little black dress

HER DEATH

• 1971 • Worked until her death • At the age of 88

FAMOUS SENTENCES

• In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

• A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

• Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

SUMMARY

• To sum up we have seen the real life of Coco Channel, her childhood and her beginings as a designer.

• Her perfume: Channel nº5.• Her most famous creations: the

cardigan jacket and her little black dress.

• Her dead: 1971.

TEST

• What was her real name?a) Gabrielleb) Chanelc) Coco

• Her famous perfume is calla) Chanel nº4b) Chanel nº 55c) Chanel nº5

• Where was her place of birth?a)Auvergneb)Loire Valleyc)Italy

• At what age did she die?a)68b)98c)88