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Coco Chanel wasn’t always an orphan. At age twelve her mother passed and left her father to care for six siblings. Soon after he left the children to fend for themselves and that is when Coco was in the Orphanage of The Catholic Monastery of Aubazine for the next seven years, where she learned how to sew and became a seamstress.

At the age of eighteen, she left the orphanage and began work for a local tailor. She adopted her name Coco while working at a cafe and as a concert singer. Later she began designing hats as a hobby. They began to catch on and gain the attention of female Parisian socialites.

In 1909, with the help of Balsan (An affair she was having at the time) and Arthur “Boy” Capel, another rich lover, Coco was able to open her own millinery, a hat shop called ”Chanel Modes.” It was located at 31 rue Cambon in Paris.

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