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
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only
Ask me who I don't dress!
If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.
If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
Before me no one would have dared dress in black
God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses
Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.
A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.
who, everyone knows, liberated women. Which allowed me years later to give them power and in a certain sense to liberate fashion.
Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you!
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.