Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971)
19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971 was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion.
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Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.
The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
Despite the work of a dozen biographers … Chanel remains an enigma.
Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
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.
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
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.
Throughout her long life, Chanel moved between two worlds, one real the other imaginary. Unloved, she lived for love. Despite her countless conquests, from English noblemen to Russian dukes, she spent years alone, work her only solace.
There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night
Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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