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
It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.
An interior is the natural projection of the soul.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
In truth, women are the strong ones.
Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.
Money for me has only one sound: liberty.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants...
Fashion passes, but style remains.
We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.
Capel said, "Remember that you're a woman." All too often I forgot that.