The 19th August marked 129 years of the birth of  Gabriel Coco Chanel.  Coco Chanel was probably the most influential designer of the 20th Century, hers is a legacy that will live forever, she left modern women so many things to be greatful for the "LBD" little black dress, costume jewellery, suits for women, trousers, the tweed jacket, pearl necklace, quilting, leather trim, signature colours red and black, not to mention Chanel No 5

Coco Chanel

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

 

"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."

 "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."

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."
"Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult."

"Elegance is not the perogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."

"A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future."

"Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!"