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
One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Fashion is in the sky, in the street.
Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.
It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.
Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.
Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends
It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.
Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.
There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.