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
Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.
It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.
The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you!
There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time
There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.
I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.
Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.
As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.