Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel, nickname of Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (1883-1971). French dress designer. In the 1920s she made her name by glamorizing workers’ clothes and school uniforms and introducing the ‘little black dress’. She also ran perfume laboratories, producing the highly successful Chanel No. 5. She had an eventful social life, mixing with the rich and famous, and is the subject of the musical Coco (1969).
