Coco Chanel · every age
What was Coco Chanel doing at 26?
Orphanage seamstress; remade fashion at 30 and again at 70
- c. 1910
Licensed milliner; opened Chanel Modes at 21 rue Cambon
Financed by Arthur 'Boy' Capel. Actress Gabrielle Dorziat wearing her hats on stage in 1912 made her name.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Portrait: Photo: Los Angeles Times (1931), UCLA Library, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · source