 She set up her workshop in a maid's room above her large flat.In 1953, Gaby Aghion joined forces with Jacques Lenoir – he ran the business side and she ran the creative side.The duo put on the first Chloé show in 1956 at a breakfast at the Café de Flore, the epicentre of young intellectual Parisians of the 1940s and 1950s.