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
After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.
Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.
In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.
I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.
Fashion is in the sky, in the street.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only
Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.
Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.
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.
I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!
Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.