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
Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.
A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
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.