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Coco Chanel

(1883-1971) [Gabrielle Chanel] French Couturier

French fashion designer Coco Chanel was born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel in Saumur, Southern France in 1883. Gabrielle adopted the name Coco during a brief career as a singer in cafes and concert halls, between 1905-08. She began her career as a designer by designing hats. Her first shop opened in 1914. Her famous salon on rue Camdon in Paris opened in 1920. Chanel was famous for popularizing practical clothes for women. In 1922 Chanel introduced a perfume, Chanel No. 5, which became and remained popular, and remains a profitable product of Chanel's company. A Broadway musical of her life opened in 1969, with Katharine Hepburn taking the role of Coco. She died on January 10, 1971 in Paris.

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
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"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."
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"Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress."

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"Elegance is refusal"
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"Great loves too must be endured."
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"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
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The material is not important, important is the vision!

"Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger."
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"Fashion passes, style remains."
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"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."
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"Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics."
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"There are people who have money and people who are rich."
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"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"
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"My friends, there are no friends."
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"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it."
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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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"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."