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 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.
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.
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.
I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.
If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don't want to do PDA, it's not that I have something against you.
An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.
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.
A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Passion always goes, and boredom stays.
That's what fame is: solitude.