Coco Chanel · every age
What was Coco Chanel doing at 17?
Orphanage seamstress; remade fashion at 30 and again at 70
- c. 1901
Left the orphanage at 18 for a boarding house in Moulins
She worked as a seamstress and sang at a cafe-concert. A song about Coco gave her the nickname.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Portrait: Photo: Los Angeles Times (1931), UCLA Library, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · source
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