Biographic: Coco

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world’s greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots.

Many people know that Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel (1883-1971) was a prolific fashion designer and founder of the House of Chanel, who ruled over Parisian haute couture for six decades.

What, perhaps, they don’t know is that she lived in the Hotel Ritz, Paris, for over 34 years; that she was a keen angler, out-fishing both the Duke of Westminster and Winston Churchill; and that, after selling the rights to her ‘No. 5’ scent, she spent over 20 years trying to get them back. Biographic: Coco presents a visual catwalk through her life, work and legacy, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the couturier behind the couture.