Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a French fashion designer of women's clothes and founder of the Chanel brand. Along with Paul Poiret, Chanel 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. She is widely regarded as the greatest fashion designer who ever lived, thus making the name of Chanel iconic. A prolific fashion creator, Chanel extended her influence...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth19 August 1883
CitySaumur, France
CountryFrance
One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.
There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.
There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but has to be someone
Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.
who, everyone knows, liberated women. Which allowed me years later to give them power and in a certain sense to liberate fashion.
Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.
I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.
I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.
I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.