‘Coco Chanel: Unbuttoned’ offers a detailed and often complicated portrait of the woman behind the powerhouse brand.
From the countless glamorous portraits we’ve seen of the designer, it’s easy to assume that Chanel was born into a life of privilege, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. She was, in fact, an illegitimate child born in a poorhouse in the western French town of Saumur in 1883. Her mother was a washerwoman and her father a street vendor who would travel to country market towns selling ribbons and lace.
” A nun currently working at Aubazine even suggests that the circular stained glass in the abbey went on to inspire the interlocked Cs later seen in Chanel’s designs.Once she left the convent, Chanel found employment in Moulins, both as a seamstress and a cabaret singer, and this is when she acquired the name “Coco”. “She never really explained where the name came from,” says Hélène Fulgence, the director of Patrimoine de Chanel.
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