1. She made the tan popular after retuning from a cruise to Cannes with a sunburn.
2. She was a Leo and collected anything with lions.
3. The shape of the Chanel No.5 bottle was in reference to Place Vendome.
4. She would have Chanel No. 5 sprayed throughout her home.
5. When Coco passed away, only 3 outfits were found in her Rue Cambon apartment.
6. In 1938, she started dating a Nazi officer named Hans Gunther Von Dincklage.
7. Until her death in 1971, her fashion empire brought in more than $160 million per year.
8. Before her designing career began, she worked in a small hosiery shop in France.
9.The Duke of Westminster painted CC and part of his crest in gold on all the lamposts in W1, London.
10. Coco’s real first name Gabriel. She got Coco from a song she performed in a musical called ‘Qui qu’a vu Coco’.
11. She loved pockets, most all her collections included pockets of some sort.
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