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
Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.
Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.
The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.
There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.
Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.
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.