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
Coco Chanel quotes about
Fashion is in the sky, in the street.
Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.
Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.
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.
The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you!
There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time
There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.
Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.
who, everyone knows, liberated women. Which allowed me years later to give them power and in a certain sense to liberate fashion.
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.