Coco Chanel: the Woman Who Turned Style Into Power

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Gabrielle Chanel, known as Coco Chanel, was much more than a designer: she was a woman who changed her course to the 20th century. Born in poverty and raised in an orphanage, she learned to sew as a child and turned that skill into a global empire of style. Her life was a mixture of struggle, intelligence and vision brutally ahead of her time. She changed the female body without surgery, only in clothes. At a time when women lived oppressed by c…