Coco Chanel
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel 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. Her extraordinary influence on haute couture was such that she was the only person in the field to be named on Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
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“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
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“Fashion changes, but style endures.”
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“Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.”
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“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
Coco Chanel
“It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”
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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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“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
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“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
Coco Chanel
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
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“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
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“Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.”
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“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
Coco Chanel
“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
Coco Chanel
“A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
Coco Chanel
“In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
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“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
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“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.”
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