Coco Before Chanel pictures

Despite a grim upbringing in rural France - abandoned by her father and raised after he mother died in an orphanage - Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel managed to succeed as an iconic innovator in the rarefied world of women's fashion. Audrey Tautou plays the resilient, headstrong designer who would take her visual inspiration from her environment - nuns’ habits, military buttons and a fisherman’s knit shirt - and go on to rule a Parisian fashion empire.