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've never done anything by halves.
I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.
Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.
Fashion is in the sky, in the street.
I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life,
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only
May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.
In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.
Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.
Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.
I have only one curiosity left: death.
There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night
A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.
Ask me who I don't dress!