- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGabrielle Bonheur Chanel
- Height5′ 6½″ (1.69 m)
- Coco Chanel was born on August 19, 1883 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. She was a costume designer, known for The Rules of the Game (1939), Tonight or Never (1931) and The Blood of a Poet (1932). She died on January 10, 1971 in Paris, France.
- Her perfume, Chanel No. 5, is the first perfume to be a blend of many floral scents, rather than smelling like a single type of flower.
- She sprayed all of her atelier fitting rooms with Chanel No. 5.
- Famous writer Françoise Sagan said on French TV, that Coco Chanel was fiercely antisemitic: "I liked her work, but I didn't like her at all. I found her disgusting, nasty, cruel, antisemitic. I had dinner with her twice. Each time I left early...because of her offensive antisemitic opinions. I didn't like that. We were pretty much at odds." [from Les guerres de Coco Chanel (2019), translated].
- Declared that Katharine Hepburn (at 60) was "too old" to play her in the Broadway musical Coco.
- The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
- When I realized that my business had a life, my life, and a face, my face, a voice, my own, and when I realized my work loved me, obeyed me and responded to me, I gave myself over to it completely and I have had since no greater love.
- Dior? He doesn't dress women, he upholsters them.
- Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
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