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a b c d e Picardie, Justine (2010). Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0061963858. Coco Chanel Biography". Inoutstar.com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2008 . Retrieved 8 March 2011. a b c "Was Coco Chanel a Nazi spy?". USA Today. AP. 17 August 2011. Archived from the original on 23 April 2013 . Retrieved 15 June 2012. Coco Chanel used jersey cloth because of its physical properties as a garment, such as its drape – how it falls upon and falls from the body of the woman – and how well it adapted to a simple garment-design. Sartorially, some of Chanel's designs derived from the military uniforms made prevalent by the War; and, by 1915, the designs and the clothes produced by the House of Chanel were known throughout France. [4] In 1915, Chanel opened her very first Couture House in Biarritz, France. She had 300 employees and even designed her first line of Haute Couture. [7]

a b c d e Kloth, Hans Michael; Kolbe, Corina (26 August 2008). "Modelegende Chanel: Wie Coco fast den Krieg beendet hätte"[Fashion legend Chanel: How Coco almost ended the war]. Spiegel Online (in German). Hamburg. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019 . Retrieved 2 June 2017. a b c d e Picardie, Justine (5 September 2010). "The Secret Life of Coco Chanel". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 15 May 2021 . Retrieved 29 July 2014. In 1906, Chanel worked in the spa resort town of Vichy. Vichy boasted a profusion of concert halls, theatres, and cafés where she hoped to achieve success as a performer. Chanel's youth and physical charms impressed those for whom she auditioned, but her singing voice was marginal and she failed to find stage work. [11] :49 Obliged to find employment, she took work at the Grande Grille, where as a donneuse d'eau she was one whose job was to dispense glasses of the purportedly curative mineral water for which Vichy was renowned. [11] :45 When the Vichy season ended, Chanel returned to Moulins, and her former haunt La Rotonde. She realized then that a serious stage career was not in her future. [11] :52 Balsan and Capel [ edit ] Caricature of Chanel and Arthur "Boy" Capel by Sem, 1913CHANEL (28 December 2017). "The Paris-Hamburg 2017/18 Métiers d'art show – CHANEL". Archived from the original on 26 January 2018 – via YouTube. a b Bretell, Richard R. (1995). The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art. Introduction of the Chanel suit". Designer-Vintage. Archived from the original on 15 November 2018 . Retrieved 14 November 2018.

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According to Edmonde Charles-Roux, [11] :222 Chanel had become tyrannical and extremely lonely late in life. In her last years she was sometimes accompanied by Jacques Chazot and her confidante Lilou Marquand. A faithful friend was also the Brazilian Aimée de Heeren, who lived in Paris four months a year at the nearby Hôtel Meurice. The former rivals shared happy memories of times with the Duke of Westminster. They frequently strolled together through central Paris. [54] Death [ edit ]

Sci-Fi Chanel". The Fashionide. 24 July 2013. Archived from the original on 4 September 2013 . Retrieved 22 August 2014. Yet not a lot is known about her. She lurks only in footnotes by Coco’s biographers. Until now. In The Chanel Sisters, Antoinette reclaims her voice. And, as any little sister might, she tells all. Although in actuality, she took Coco’s secrets to the grave. Biography claims Coco Chanel was a Nazi spy". Reuters. 17 August 2011. Archived from the original on 24 December 2019 . Retrieved 8 November 2018. Later in life, Chanel would retell the story of her childhood somewhat differently; she would often include more glamorous accounts, which were generally untrue. [10] She said that when her mother died, her father sailed for America to seek his fortune, and she was sent to live with two aunts. She also claimed to have been born a decade later than 1883 and that her mother had died when she was much younger than 11. [15] [16] Personal life and early career [ edit ] Aspirations for a stage career [ edit ]After the end of the war, Coco decided to move to Switzerland and return to Paris only in 1954 to reopen her brand.