Coco Chanel Coco Chanel is a very popular _____1_____ designer. She is most famous for designing little black dresses, suits and a _____2_____ called “Chanel No. 5”. She also made comfortable, _____3_____ clothes more popular: her clothes gave women more _____4_____. Chanel was born in France in 1883. When she was young, she worked as a singer and learned how to _____5_____. In 1910, Chanel opened a hat shop. Business was good, so she started designing clothing and _____6_____, too. Chanel thought it was important that women could move around freely in her clothes. She tested all of her clothes on _____7_____—they had to climb stairs and get into sports cars. If they could do these things comfortably, then the _____8_____ was a success! By the 1920s, Chanel had begun to open shops in Paris. Coco Chanel became a style_____9_____ and she was famous all around the world. When World War II came, Chanel left France and went to live in Switzerland. After the war, she went back to France and continued to work in fashion. Chanel died in 1971. Today, the Chanel brand is worth around twenty _____10_____ dollars.