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
In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.
It's always better to be underdressed.
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.
I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.
Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.
As extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things.
Passion always goes, and boredom stays.
An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.
I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.
A woman in love is helpless.