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Coco Chanel
Geburtstag: 19. August 1883
Todesdatum: 10. Januar 1971
Andere Namen: Coco Chanelová
Gabrielle „Coco“ Chanel war eine international bekannte französische Modedesignerin und Unternehmerin.
Coco Chanel gründete Anfang der 1910er Jahre das Modeimperium Chanel und gilt als herausragende Persönlichkeit der Modegeschichte. Sie wurde aufgrund ihres Einflusses auf die Welt der Mode, insbesondere die Haute Couture, 1999 als einzige Person ihrer Berufsgruppe auf der von der US-Zeitschrift Time veröffentlichten Liste der 100 einflussreichsten Personen des 20. Jahrhunderts aufgeführt.
Ab 1913 war sie Wegbereiterin einer damals nahezu revolutionären, funktionellen Damenmode mit wadenlangem Rock oder luftiger Hose, lose gegürtetem Oberteil und Kurzhaarschnitt für selbstbewusste, moderne Frauen. In den 1920er Jahren kreierte Coco Chanel das „kleine Schwarze“, das noch immer einen Klassiker in der Damenmode darstellt. 1922 brachte sie das Parfüm Chanel Nº 5 auf den Markt, das als meistverkauftes der Welt gilt. Ab Mitte der 1950er Jahre wurde ihr Chanel-Kostüm mit einem losen, meist bordierten Tweed-Jäckchen und einem ausgestellten Rock weltbekannt.
Coco Chanels Vermächtnis, das weltweit tätige Unternehmen Chanel, gehört mit einem Jahresumsatz von mehr als sechs Milliarden US-Dollar zu den größten und bedeutendsten in der Modebranche.
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„Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.“
— Coco Chanel
As quoted in Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets (1971) by Marcel Haedrich
„Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.“
— Coco Chanel
As quoted in Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets (1971)
„Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.“
— Coco Chanel
As quoted in Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets (1971) by Marcel Haedrich
„I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.“
— Coco Chanel
Context: Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
As quoted in Chanel (1987) by Jean Leymarie
„The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.“
— Coco Chanel
As quoted in Believing in Ourselves (1992) by Armand Eisen, p. 39
„In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.“
— Coco Chanel
As quoted in Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets (1971) by Marcel Haedrich
„A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.“
— Coco Chanel
As quoted in The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman (2009) by Karen Karbo
„In 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.“
— Coco Chanel
As quoted in Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets (1971), p. 95
In 1919 I woke up famous and with a new friend who was to give its full meaning to my success.
Statement to Salvador Dalí, about herself and her friendship with Misia Sert, as quoted in The Persistence of Memory : A Biography of Dali (1992) by Meredith Etherington-Smith
„As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.“
— Coco Chanel
As quoted in Thinking Through the Essay (1986) by Judith Barker-Sandbrook and Neil Graham, p. 158
„There 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 night“
— Coco Chanel
Statement in the 1920s as quoted in Chanel (1987) by Jean Leymari
„The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.“
— Coco Chanel
As quoted in Beauty in Bloom : A Collection of Beautiful Inspirations (2009) by Natalie Bloom, p. 23
„He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world“
— Coco Chanel
On Charles De Gaulle from the 1944 interview with, the then MI6 agent, Malcolm Muggeridge. Read the full interview here http://www.chanel-muggeridge.co.uk/the-1944-chanel-muggeridge-interview/.
„Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.“
— Coco Chanel
As quoted in Believing in Ourselves (1992) by Armand Eisen, p. 15
„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.“
— Coco Chanel
As quoted in Chanel : A Woman of Her Own (1991) by Axel Madsen, p. 124
„I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière — a real devil.“
— Coco Chanel
As quoted in Paris, Paris : Journey Into the City of Light (2005) by David Downie, p. 93
