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
Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.
In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.
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.
A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.
I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.
Fashion is in the sky, in the street.
An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.
A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.
Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!
Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.