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
Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.
A woman has the age she deserves.
True generosity means accepting ingratitude.
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.
I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.
You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.
Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young
I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.
A woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates.