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Krista Harriman
Mrs.Hobbins
Fashion Marketing
January 18, 2013
Gabrielle Bonheur ‘Coco’ Chanel
At the age of 17, the future designer, Coco Chanel, was sent to live in an orphanage, where nuns taught her the basic techniques of sewing and helped her land a local job as a seamstress. However, this life was meant for more exciting things than a seamstress, and so the ambitious young girl took off for the town of Moulins to become a cabaret singer. While the experience in Moulins did not open up any singing opportunities, it did set this life story in a new direction. Chanel met Etienne Balsan, a rich, young French man, who soon made her a mistress. Bored with her life as a mistress, it wasn’t long before she would approach Balsan with


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