Coco Chanel
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a French fashion designer and business woman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post-World War I era with liberating women from the constraints of the "corseted silhouette" and popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style. A prolific fashion creator, Chanel extended her influence beyond couture clothing, realizing her design aesthetic in jewellery, handbags, and fragrance. Her signature scent, Chanel No. 5, has become an iconic product. She is the only fashion designer listed on "Time" magazine's . Chanel herself designed her famed interlocked-CC monogram, which has been in use since the 1920s.
Gabrielle Duchêne
Duchêne was present at the founding conference of the Universal Assembly for Peace in Brussels in September 1936.
World War II (1939–45) was a difficult period for Duchêne, but by great good fortune her apartment was never raided and her records remain intact.
Gabrielle Duchêne died on 3 August 1954 in Zurich, Switzerland, at the age of 84.