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08/19/1883 | Coco Chanel is born. | d200fahol9mbkt.cloudfront.net/.../DSC_0023.JPG |
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02/08/1895 | Her mother dies. | Coco Chanel's mother dies at the age of 27. Her mother dies of tuberculosis. Her father coudn't care for his five children so her two brothers got sent to an all boys orphanage. Her and her sisters get sent to an all girls orphanage. Coco Chanel was 12 when her mother died. http://iaspace.pbworks.com/f/1244118840/picture%20of%20coco%20chanel.jpg |
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04/11/1901 | Enters Notre Dame, a finishing school for young ladies | Coco Chanel enters Notre Dame at the age of 18. There she loved to make ragdolls out of cloth scraps. http://www.world-city-photos.org/Paris/paris_notre_dame/Paris_Notre_Dame.jpg |
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04/11/1904 | Coco gets a starting job. | Coco Chanel started seamstressing at a tailoring store. There she liked to look at expressions on customers faces. That is why she worked right in the back of the store. http://timetobleed.com/images/threads.jpg |
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04/11/1913 | Coco opens her first shop. | This shop was given to her by the her love Arthur "Boy" Capel. It was just a little shop on the streets of Paris.http://timetobleed.com/images/threads.jpg |
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07/11/1915 | Coco opens her second shop. | Coco opens her second shop that she bought with the money from her first shop and World War 1. http://www.euroclubschools.org/userimages/449px-Channel_headquarters_bordercropped.jpg |
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04/11/1921 | Coco creates Chanel NO.5. | This perfume was one of the most expensive perfumes in the world at that time. It was so expensive because she blended almost more than 80 different scents. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_58ccSIuI9_U/S3V03ApGY0I/AAAAAAAAA3k/AKFR1XS6iqg/s400/chanel+no.5.jpg |
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04/11/1926 | Coco creates the "little black dress." | She created the "little black dress" when she couldn't find anything to wear to the theater. http://thelittleblackdresssociety.com/little-black-dress-society.jpg |
| 04/12/1939 | Coco closes her shops | Coco Chanel closes her shops because she doesn't think it's the time for fashion, besides it is World War ll. | |
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11/14/1957 | Neiman Marcus Fashion Award | http://www.fashionfame.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/CFDA-Award-Figurine.JPG |
| 04/12/1969 | Created COCO the musical. | Katharine Hepburn made this musical with music by André Previn. This later became a book. | |
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01/10/1971 | Coco Chanel dies. | Coco Chanel dies at the age of 87. She died of a heart attack and old age at the Ritz Hotel. USPSBCA7U2L4LCAS3D0IOCASOBKU0CA12TDX4CAYX6YFQCADAOFZECATZZ6HXCAQZCR6ZCAUXBB5OCAPKZ7BFCAWXPZIICA2ML3NFCAXMLGLPCAR3C2W5CATF8YIYCAGZRLIICALD254ECA0YIBY8CAPHQ8OPCAXXLY7NCATCQ59ACAVK5PA7.jpg |
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02/06/1983 | Karl Legerfeld become shop manager at the House of Chanel. | Karl Legerfeld becomes premier designer of the House of Chanel 12 years after she died. http://www.superfuture.com/supernews/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/chanel-macau.jpg |
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