PARIS, FRANCE

GV Madeleine Church
CU Sign outside church
MV Coffin being carried into church
CU Coffin and pallbearers past camera
SCU & CU Wreath from Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne (2 shots)
CU "C" emblem and wreath of red roses (3 shots)
GV Church exterior
SV Madame Grunbach & other mourners
SCU Two girl mourners
MV White wreaths being carried
SV Coffin out of church and into hearse (2 shots)
MV Hearse and crowd outside church
MV Cortege drives away (2 shots)

Initials JMR/BOB/OS/002 JMR/BOB/OS/0017
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Background: Hundreds of mourners, ranging from top couturiers to models and humble seamstresses, crowded into the Madeleine Church in the heart of Paris today (Weds, Jan 13) for the funeral of "Coco" Chanel, Queen of the world's fashion designers.
Mlle. Chanel, who died on Sunday aged 87, opened her own couture house in 1916, the beginning of a legendary career. The salon still stands in the same street and its Spring showing will begin as planned on January 26. For once, the celebrated designer had finished her new offerings well in advance. The fashion house will continue under a new director, Madams Grunbach, who was among the mourners.
Although the rich and famous ware among "Coco" Chanel's clients, it was the ordinary people of Paris - for whom her clothes were equally designed - who made up the bulk of the 1,500 mourners.
Masses of white flowers decorated the church, most of them gardenias which had become a symbol for Chanel. After the service her pinewood coffin was put in a hearse for the journey to Lausanne in Switzerland, where she will be buried.