Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coco Chanel, a woman whose name became synonymous with haute couture, fine perfume, and luxury branding, was born in 1883, in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At a time when women had few legal rights and even fewer choices about the lives they could lead, Coco Chanel was making a name ...

Designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, wearing her signature pearls and jeweled pillbox hat, photographed by Cecil Beaton in 1953. | Cecil Beaton/GettyImages For centuries, clothing wore women—not the ...