Coco Chanel

Fashion Designer

Coco Chanel was a pioneering French fashion designer known for revolutionizing women's fashion with her modernist approach and the iconic Chanel No. 5 perfume.

Born
September 19, 1883
Died
January 10, 1971
Quotes
235
Rank
#288

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"Passion always goes, and boredom stays."

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"Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics."

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"Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful."

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"I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life."

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"As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world."

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"Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts."

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"A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism."

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"May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life."

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"Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses."

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"I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion."

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"Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself."

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"As extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things."

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"That's what fame is: solitude."

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