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
May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.
A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion
The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.
You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
Fashion changes, but style endures.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
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.