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
He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics
Elegance is refusal.
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.
There is no fashion for the old.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!
Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.