"Simplicity is the key to all true elegance" - the myth Chanel now also in the cinema with Audrey Tautou in the leading role. Coco Chanel, the first entrepreneur who created a world empire with style, elegance and iron discipline, knew what was important. She invented the little black dress, cut off old pigtails and lived in the belief that it was great fun to make money yourself. Gabrielle Chanel, called Coco, 1883-1971, spent her childhood as a half-orphan with her aunts in Auvergne until she ran away as a young girl. Her relationship with the wealthy Englishman Boy Capel, who pre-financed a hat salon in the Rue Cambon, marked the beginning of her unprecedented career as an entrepreneur. In just 15 years, Coco Chanel had built up a fashion empire; after the Second World War, she made a major comeback, which continues to this day. The talks in the vor.