"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different"

     - Coco Chanel

• Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was born in 1883 and died in 1971 

• She created a new look for women in the 20th century, creating clothes that were primarily comfortable. A Chanel suit of 1923 or handbag is still seen as a landmark purchase for women of increasingly younger ages

• The Chanel No.5 scent is the best selling in the world

• The interlocking Cs of Coco Chanel remain one of the ultimate brand insignia

• Since 1983, Chanel has been designed by Karl Lagerfeld

• The building where her apartment is in Paris was bought by Chanel in 1920, and still houses the ground-floor shop, the haute couture workrooms in the attic (where 100 seamstresses still work entirely by hand), and what is now Karl Lagerfeld's study

             

Karl Lagerfeld         

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous"