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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"I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed."

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"Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch."

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"He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right."

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"I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it."

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"A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking."

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"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."

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"I don't do fashion, I AM fashion."

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"Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand."

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"Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed."

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"Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous."

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"A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback."

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"Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics"

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"All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything."

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