Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel- Chanel, is her birth surname but her nickname, "Coco" is what some say that the name comes from one of the songs she used to sing, and Chanel herself said that it was...
She adopted the name Coco during a brief career as a cafe and concert singers 1905-1908. First a mistress of a wealthy military officer then of an English industrialist, she drew on the resources of...