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
Coco Chanel quotes about
A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.
Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.
Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young
Women have always been the strong ones of the world.
To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.
Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.
I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.
My friends, there are no friends.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.