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
Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period
Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
That's what fame is: solitude.
All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.
If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.
Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.
There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.