FASHION DESIGNER

Coco Chanel

1883 - 1971

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Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel ( shə-NEL, French: [ɡabʁijɛl bɔnœʁ kɔko ʃanɛl] ; 19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post-World War I era with popularising a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style. She is the only fashion designer listed on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. A prolific fashion creator, Chanel extended her influence beyond couture clothing into jewellery, handbags, and fragrance. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Coco Chanel is the most popular fashion designer, the 34th most popular biography from France (up from 49th in 2019) and the most popular French Fashion Designer.

Coco Chanel was a French fashion designer who is most famous for her work in the 1920s and 1930s. She is credited with the invention of the little black dress, as well as the "little black dress" for women.

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Among FASHION DESIGNERS

Among fashion designers, Coco Chanel ranks 1 out of 51. After her are Karl Lagerfeld, Calvin Klein, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, Pierre Cardin, Maurizio Gucci, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Ralph Lauren, and Donatella Versace.

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Among people born in 1883, Coco Chanel ranks 4. Before her are Franz Kafka, Benito Mussolini, and Khalil Gibran. After her are John Maynard Keynes, Karl Jaspers, Anton Webern, Walter Gropius, Victor Francis Hess, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jaroslav Hašek, and Joseph Schumpeter. Among people deceased in 1971, Coco Chanel ranks 3. Before her are Igor Stravinsky, and Nikita Khrushchev. After her are Lawrence Bragg, Louis Armstrong, Jim Morrison, Paul Karrer, John Boyd Orr, György Lukács, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Audie Murphy, and Giorgos Seferis.

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In France

Among people born in France, Coco Chanel ranks 34 out of 6,770. Before her are Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), Alain Delon (1935), Auguste Comte (1798), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), and Paul Cézanne (1839). After her are John Calvin (1509), Louis XIII of France (1601), Paul Gauguin (1848), Émile Durkheim (1858), Napoleon III (1808), and Louis XVIII of France (1755).

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Among FASHION DESIGNERS In France

Among fashion designers born in France, Coco Chanel ranks 1. After her are Christian Dior (1905), Jean-Paul Gaultier (1952), Hubert de Givenchy (1927), Thierry Mugler (1948), Paul Poiret (1879), Rose Bertin (1747), Madeleine Vionnet (1876), Christian Lacroix (1951), Emanuel Ungaro (1933), Christian Louboutin (1964), and Jean Patou (1887).

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