Apart from starting one of the most famous couture houses in alllllll the world. She was just pure class, and in my eyes the ultimate feminist I aspire to be.
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
This picture shows a magazine with creations by French designer Gabrielle Chanel displayed during the exhibition "Gabrielle Chanel, fashion manifesto" at the Galliera Palais fashion museum in Paris on September 25, 2020. - The exhibition runs from October 1, 2020 to March 14, 2021. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)“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.”
“A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed”
“I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little – if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”
“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
