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
In truth, women are the strong ones.
Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.
Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
An interior is the natural projection of the soul.
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.
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!
There is no fashion for the old.
simplicity is the key of elegance