COCO CHANEL

Here's a time line of Coco's life:

• 1983 - Born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
• 1906 - working in the spa resort town of Vichy as a performer
• 1908 - Chanel began an affair with Captain Arthur Edward 'Boy' Capel
• 1910 - Opening her first shop on Paris’s Rue Cambon
• 1913 - Opened a boutique in Deauville, financed by Arthur Capel
• 1919 - Registered as a couturière, established her maison de couture at 31 rue Cambon
• 1920s - She launched her first perfume, Chanel No. 5
• 1925 - she introduced the now legendary Chanel suit
• 1930s - The international economic depression had a negative impact on her company
• 1941 - Worked for General Walter Schellenberg, committed herself to the German cause
• 1944 - Chanel was called in to be interrogated by the Free French Purge Committee,
• 1945 - Moved to Switzerland
• 1954 - Revival of her couture house
• 1971 - She died on Sunday, 10 January 1971, at the Hotel Ritz, where she had resided for more than 30 years