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
Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity
A woman without perfume is a woman without a future.
The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.
Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.
Fashion passes, but style remains.
We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.
A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.
It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them
Money for me has only one sound: liberty.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
A woman has the age she deserves.
It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.