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About Coco Chanel
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 β 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. She was the founder of the famous fashion brand Chanel.
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βFashion is made to become unfashionable.β
βFashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.β
βAs long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.β
βIn order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.β
βThe most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.β
βHe will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world.β
βSuccess is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.β
βI was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturiΓ¨re β a real devil.β
βIn 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.β
βThere 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 nightβ
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βDress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.β
Coco Chanel on Simplicity
βSimplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.β
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βThroughout 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.β
About Coco Chanel
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 β 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. She was the founder of the famous fashion brand Chanel.