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
What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.
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.
I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
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.