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
I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.
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
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
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.
There is no fashion for the old.