Coco Chanel....More than a mode

Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, most knowing as Coco Chanel, was a French designer, a pioneer woman who inspired her designs looking at menswear. She was a very important figure in 20th- century because of her pursuit of expensive simplicity. She also was the founder of the famous fashion bran Chanel.
Chanel was born on 19 August 1883 in the small town of Saumur in France, at the young age of twelve Chanel become an orphaned, when her mother dies of tuberculosis and her father left the family (she and her three brothers and two sisters).
She stays for sex years at the orphanage of the Roman Catholic monastery of Aubazine, where she learned the trade of a seamstress. School vacations were spent with relatives in the provincial capital, where female relatives taught Coco to sew with more flourish than the nuns at the monastery were able to demonstrate. When Coco turned eighteen, she left the orphanage, and the ambitious young girl took off for the town of Moulins to become a cabaret singer. During this time, Chanel performed in clubs in Vichy and Moulins where she was called “Coco.”
While she failed to get steady work as a singer, it was here that she met rich, young French textile heir Étienne Balsan, to whom she soon became an acknowledged mistress, keeping her day job in a tailoring shop
For my this character to inspire admiration because she was a woman of great temperament, very strong,intelligent,but the most important she was a women advanced for her times,what she showed in her creations of fashion