Selected classic quotations from coco chanel:
1. Simple is not walking barefoot, nor wearing wooden shoes. Simplicity comes from the spirit and should also be born from the heart.
Fashion is a technology, a profession and a business.
Money may be an evil thing, but isn't our civilization also derived from a concept based on evil? There can be no religion without original sin. It is precisely because money is an evil thing that it should be squandered.
The novel records important laws that are not written elsewhere, and these laws can often dominate human beings.
All novels are true stories made up of dreams. When I was very young, I instinctively regarded the catalogue as a novel, and the novel was nothing more than a bigger catalogue.
6. Inferior novels usually describe society better than famous books.
7. Books used to be my best friend. The radio is a box of lies, but every book is a treasure. The worst books will also tell you some truth, some real situations. The worst novel is also a monument to human experience.
8. I don't like others to make my disordered life or thoughts orderly. Order is a subjective phenomenon. I don't like advice either, not because I am stubborn, but because I am too easily influenced by others.
I make skirts for a living. I could have done something else. It was just an accident. What I like is not skirts, but work.
10. We can see everything in women.
1 1. Mihia is neither kind nor evil, which is a major weakness of human nature, but it is also a natural force.
12. I only cherish some stupid or useless things, because poetry is hidden in these things. All our misfortunes, the moral of the emotional society, stem from our unwillingness to give up anything.
13. Cloth made of expensive materials can't make a woman look richer, and gorgeous gems are no more effective than this kind of cloth.
14. A woman = jealousy+vanity+rap needs+confusion.
15. Too good women always make men feel bored.
I've never liked women. I have no friendship with them. They won't understand the meaning of this sentence. In France, friendship is an incredible thing.
17. When you talk about fashion, you should be full of enthusiasm, not fanaticism, not to mention poetic or literary color. A skirt is not a tragedy, nor a painting. It is a fascinating and fleeting creation, not an eternal work of art. Fashion should be able to die out and die out quickly, so that business can continue to survive.
18. I have been creating fashion for a quarter century. Why? Because I know how to express my time.
I invented sportswear for myself; Not because other women want to do sports, but because I want to do sports myself.
20. I go out to socialize not because I need to create fashion, but because I want to go out, just because I am the first woman to enjoy the life of this century.
Fashion is not an art, but a profession.
22. It's best to be fashionable, even if it's ugly. If you stay away from fashion, you will immediately become a funny character, which is even more terrible. No one has enough strength to surpass fashion.
23. Beautiful women will make other women unhappy, and ugly women will make men sad.
24. Men prefer to go out with well-dressed women instead of bright and dazzling women.
25. To be impolite gracefully, first of all, you need to have a good upbringing.
26. I have never been a heroine. But I chose the person I want to be, and now I am the person I want to be. Even if I am unloved and unlovable, so what?
27. I am not smart or stupid, but I feel that I am not an ordinary person. In France, everyone is different.
28. I take everything seriously. I treat everything sincerely.
Characters experience, coco chanel:
Growing experience
1883, Gabriel? Chanel was born in Somir, France. Her mother worked in a poor family and gave birth to her there. (But Chanel claims that she was born in 1893, and was born in Overwien, a mountainous area in southern France). She is the second child of a poor unmarried couple in France. Her father is a grocer in Cewenshan, and her mother is a herdsman in Cewenshan mountain area. In fact, there are always different opinions about her life story, and Chanel tried to avoid and cover it up until her death, which made her birth more foggy.
1889, her mother died when she was six years old, and her father left her and four brothers and sisters. From then on, she was brought up by her menstrual cycle and entered a monastery school in her childhood, where she learned a needlework.
road to fame
1905, at the age of 22, she became a "cafe singer", took the stage name "Coco" and sang in different karaoke bars and cafes for a living. During this singer's career, Coco made two frequent visitors and became their confidants, one was a British industrialist and the other was a rich military officer.
19 10 year, Coco opened a milliner's shop in Paris, and with excellent sewing technology, she sewed one hat after another with simple and attractive styles. Two of her close friends introduced her to many famous guests. At that time, ladies were tired of fancy decorations, so Chanel's simple and comfortable hat was as cool as a fountain to them.
19 1 1 year. In a short period of one year, the business grew bigger and bigger. Coco moved the store to Cambon Block, which is still the base of Chanel's headquarters. Making hats can never satisfy Coco's ambition for fashion, so she entered the field of haute couture.
19 14, cocoa? Chanel opened two fashion shops, and the fashion brand "Chanel", which had a far-reaching influence on later generations, was officially born.
In the 1920s, Chanel designed many innovative styles, such as warp-knitted sailor skirt, little black skirt and stand-up pullover. Moreover, Coco draws inspiration from men's wear and adds a little masculine flavor to women's wear. In the 1920s, women only wore skirts. She changed the glamorous fashion of women's wear in those days, such as adding a suit jacket to the women's wear collection and launching women's trousers.
192 1 year, Chanel also launched ChanelNo 5 perfume, by actress Nicole? Nicole K as the spokesperson, chanel no.5 is the first perfume named after a designer in history. The "double C" logo also makes this bottle of perfume the most profitable product in Chanel's history, and it has been enduring in the time corridor of Hengyuan. So far, it is still the key product promoted by Chanel official website.
In 1930s and 1940s, when World War II broke out, coco chanel closed her shop and took refuge in Switzerland with her beloved Nazi officers.
Return to industry
From 65438 to 0954, Coco returned to France, determined to make a comeback, and quickly captured a group of Parisian celebrities with its simple and natural women's style. Coat, bell bottoms, etc. They are all works of coco chanel in the post-war period. Or the post-war Chanel style has always been simple and elegant, tartan plaid or Nordic geometric printing, camellia, tweed are often used to make clothes, comfortable and natural.
197 1 year 1 month 1 day, she died in her room in hotel ritz, at the age of 88. In his life, he explained the meticulous, luxurious and never-fading Chanel spirit. Her tombstone is carved with the heads of five stone lions. Chanel's design studio in Paris, now in Carl? Under the management of Lagerfeld, it is still the top studio in today's fashion world.
Inheriting spirit
1983, after Chanel's death, the design genius karl lagerfeld took over as the fashion director of Chanel Group, which pushed Chanel's fashion to another peak, but today, every season's new products still take Chanel spirit as the design concept. Karl lagerfeld has a free, arbitrary and relaxed design mentality, and is the most famous representative of modern fashion directors. In his design, he always mysteriously unifies two opposing artistic feelings, which are bold and dignified in France, romantic and humorous, and rigorous and exquisite in Germany. He doesn't have the same modeling lines and color cast, but he can understand Chanel's pure style from beginning to end.
20 14 12 3 the British mirror pointed out that the latest evidence confirmed that cocoa? Chanel was a Nazi spy who fell in love with a senior Gestapo official and tried to persuade Britain to end the war. It is reported that the Nazis chose her to negotiate with Britain because she was a friend of British Prime Minister Churchill at that time. After the war, Chanel was investigated by the French authorities, and it was this friendship that saved her from bad luck.