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
A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.
In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.
Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life,
I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.
I have only one curiosity left: death.
A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.
Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.
One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.
For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.
Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.
There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night
Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.
Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.