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
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around
In truth, women are the strong ones.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
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.
As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.