Coco Chanel Early Life. Nevertheless, coco’s tomboyish style and love for menswear played a big part in the name too. Its creator was a russian emigrant perfumer ernest bo.
August 19, 1883 in saumur, france. She was the second daughter of albert chanel and jeanne devolle, a market stallholder and laundrywoman respectively at the time of her birth. Chanel made a triumphant return to the fashion world at the age of 70.