Chanel’s biography has inspired other art, including the 2009 movie “Coco Before Chanel” and ... Chanel created a fashion vocabulary still in use today. “People don’t realize the ...

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was born in 1883 in a hospice for the poor in Saumur, western France. At the age of 11, her mother died and she was placed by her father in a convent orphanage in the ...