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- NAME: Coco Chanel
- OCCUPATION: Fashion Designer
- BIRTH DATE: August 19, 1883
- DEATH DATE: January 10, 1971
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Saumur, France
- PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France
- AKA: Gabrielle Chanel
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With her trademark suits and little black dresses, fashion designer Coco Chanel created timeless designs that are still popular today.
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Play NowCoco Chanel. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 03:19, Jun 19, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/coco-chanel-9244165.
Coco Chanel. [Internet]. 2013. The Biography Channel website. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/coco-chanel-9244165 [Accessed 19 Jun 2013].
"Coco Chanel." 2013. The Biography Channel website. Jun 19 2013, 03:19 http://www.biography.com/people/coco-chanel-9244165.
"Coco Chanel," The Biography Channel website, 2013, http://www.biography.com/people/coco-chanel-9244165 [accessed Jun 19, 2013].
"Coco Chanel," The Biography Channel website, http://www.biography.com/people/coco-chanel-9244165 (accessed Jun 19, 2013).
Coco Chanel [Internet]. The Biography Channel website; 2013 [cited 2013 Jun 19] Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/coco-chanel-9244165.
Coco Chanel, http://www.biography.com/people/coco-chanel-9244165 (last visited Jun 19, 2013).
Coco Chanel. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/coco-chanel-9244165. Accessed Jun 19, 2013.
There have been several biographies of the fashion revolutionary, including Chanel and Her World (2005) written by her friend Edmonde Charles-Roux.
In the recent television biopic, Coco Chanel (2008), Shirley MacLaine starred as the famous designer around the time of her 1954 career resurrection. The actress told WWD that she had long been interested in playing Chanel. “What’s wonderful about her is she’s not a straightforward,
easy woman to understand.”
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