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Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel is born in Saumur in Southern France
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Encouraged by her friends to go to Paris. There she opens a hat shop and it is extremely successful.
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Expands her business with the help of her close friend Arthur Capel
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She opens her first fashion boutique in Deauville and her masculine, tailor-made clothes are received very well
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She opens up a shop in Paris at 31 rue Cambon which today is still the House of Chanel
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Her iconic little black dress is featured in Vogue magazine
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WWII Germans occupy france and Chanel meets German officer Gunther von Dicklage, and they have a 3 year affair which seriously damages her reputation
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Seeing male designers like Christian Dior making clothing for women that are again restrictive, she comes out of retirement, opening the House of Chanel again and putting out a new clothing line
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The musical about her life, titled Coco, hits Broadway and stars Katharine Hepburn
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Chanel dies in her hotel room in Paris at the Ritz