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The Fashion Accessory in 2005/6

Chanel was taken in by the sisters of the convent in Moulins, when she was 17. No doubt their eyebrows raised when the young woman left the seamstress job they had helped her get to try for a career as a cabaret singer. This stint as a performer led her to take up with the local swells and become the backup mistress of Etienne Balsan, a playboy who would finance her move to Paris and the opening of her first hat business. That arrangement gave way to a bigger and better deal when she moved on to his friend, Arthur ("Boy") Capel, who is said to have been the love of her life and who backed her expansion from hats to clothes and from Paris to the coastal resorts of Deauville and Biarritz.