Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel (1883-1971), born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, was a French designer. She revolutionised women's fashions by dispensing with corsets and restrictive cuts, and by introducing such breakthroughs as the chemise dress and the collarless cardigan jacket. She is known also for "little black dresses", costume jewelry, and perfumes, including Chanel No.5.

Wisdom & Quotes

• That's what fame is: solitude.

- quoted in Marcel Haedrich, Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets

• Great loves too must be endured.

- quoted in Marcel Haedrich, Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secret

• Youth is something very new: twenty years ago, no one mentioned it.

- quoted in Marcel Haedrich, Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets

• As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.

- attributed

• How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
• Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
• There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Jose Clemente Orozco