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Monday 19 August 2013

Remembering An Icon: Coco Chanel...

130 years ago today, Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel arrived into the world. Little did anyone know back then the revolutionary impact she would have on fashion around the world and the incredible legacy she would leave behind. 

An icon for many reasons - her brunette bob and cherry red lips, the LBD, tweed twin sets, two-toned ballet pumps, oversized costume pearls, outspoken manner, quilted chained bag, Chanel No. 5 - the list is fabulously endless.

Bring out your inner Coco today by casting an eye over our favourite Chanel quotes and some beautiful photographs of the woman who perfectly encapsulated stylish elegance - long live Chanel...

 
"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."
- Coco Chanel

"A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future."
- Coco Chanel


"Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road."
- Coco Chanel



"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."
- Coco Chanel


"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." 
- Coco Chanel


"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."
- Coco Chanel



"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve." 
- Coco Chanel


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



"I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all."
- Coco Chanel


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