谈香奈儿我们直觉就谈到了时尚、时装、香水，她的辉煌成与品牌经营，不过我们却很少马上联想到关于 Coco Chanel 的个人魅力。前不久的 8/19 正是 Coco Chanel 的 131 岁生日，先让我们暂时忘却这大牌子光芒，站在一个靠近的角度细细的品味，关于 25 句出自 Coco Chanel 历练人生后的经典名言吧！

1.Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity。 有些人认为奢华的反面词是贫穷，但其实不是，奢华的反义词是粗俗。

2.The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

最有“勇气”的行为就是一直只想着自己。

3.In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

想要无可取代，就必须与众不同。

4.You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

你生命只有一次，还是活的有趣点吧。

5.I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.

我不做流行，我就是流行。

6.Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

只有那些没有记忆的人才坚持他们的独创性。

（或者换个角度来理解这句话：任何人都不可能做到百分百地独创，因为他们的记忆里或多或少都会存留别人的元素）

7.Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. 穿得寒酸，人们只记得那件寒酸的衣服；穿得无可挑剔，人们会记得衣服里的女人。

8.My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.

我的生活不曾取悦于我，所以我创造了自己的生活。

9.I imposed black; it is still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around. 黑色一直在触动我，尤其在今天更是如此，因为黑色可以让周遭的一切相形见绌。

10.As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

你只要知道男人其实跟孩子一样，你就什么都懂了！

11.I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.

我不会在乎你怎么看待我，反正我根本也不会考虑你。

12.Fashion changes, but style endures.

时尚不断变迁，风格会永恒。

13.There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

没时间让你感到枯燥乏味，因为时间都拿来工作与恋爱。

14.A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

一个女孩应该拥有两样，她自己和她想成就的。

15.You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life. 你可以做到三十岁华丽,四十岁迷人,以及令人无法抗拒的余生。

16.A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

女人再怎么打扮，优雅是最重要的。

17.Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

男人只会记得哪个女人使他关注与不安。

18.Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

既然一切都记在脑海里了，我们最好就别丢掉。

19.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.

二十岁时你的面容是大自然赋予的，三十岁时你的面容是岁月雕琢的，而到了五十岁时你会得到一张你想要的脸庞。

20.I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

我不知道为什么女人拥有一个男人时，还妄图拥有他的一切。

21.How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. 有多少人会去关心当一个人决定为了某人放弃一些事时失去了一些什么。

22.Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

温柔不会起什么作用,除非你恰巧是一只孵蛋的母鸡。

23.It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

有一点点不得体才是最好的。

24.The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

最适合你的颜色，才是世界上最美的颜色。

25.Elegance is refusal.

优雅是懂得拒绝。

 

第二篇：Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

1883-1971

Biography

? Born in Saumur, France

? Sent to an orphanage at age 12

? First job with her aunt as an assistant to clothing store owner ? Nicknamed ‘Coco’ from her version of a popular song

? At 25, went to live at Etienne Balsan’s estate

? Began trimming hats 1908-09, opened a shop in Balsan’s apartment in Paris ? 1910 opened Chanel Modes, worked as milliner

? 1913 opened shop near Normandy Hotel – introduced jersey sports suit ? Chanel sweater came from Coco wearing a man’s Polo sweater for warmth ? Chanel flourished during World War I

? First fashion house, 1915

? Created first perfume named after a couture designer called Chanel No. 5

Signature Looks:

1. Chanel Jewelry

3. Chanel Suit 2. Little Black Dress

Significance:

Coco Chanel was an innovator and forward thinker. She had a unique point of view which perfectly coincided with the zeitgeist of her time. Specifically, she believed women should be able to dress as comfortably as a man. Her design aesthetic featured menswear for women including white cuffs and collars to resemble a man’s suit, Polo sweaters, French sailor shirts and fisherman sweaters. . During and after WWI, women simply could not keep up with the tasks they necessarily had to undertake when men went to war. The simplified, comfortable, uncorseted clothes Chanel created were both elegant and practical. Along with the adoption of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, Chanel’s designs ushered in a new era. When styles changed in 1947 and the hourglass figure came back in vogue, Chanel stepped aside rather than compromise her vision. As the Women’s Rights Movement began to gain steam again at the end of the 1950’s, Chanel reopened her Couture House and enjoyed more massive success and acclaim, using her strong vision to dress women in style throughout the 1960’s.

Signature Looks Today:

4. Celebrities Wearing Chanel Today

Works Cited

Bott, Danie?le. Chanel: Collections and Creations. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. Print.

De, La Haye, Amy., and Shelley Tobin. Chanel, the Couturiere at Work. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook, 1994. Print.

Koda, Harold, Andrew Bolton, and Rhonda K. Garelick. Chanel. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. Print.

Images Cited

1. Ventura, Erica. CHANEL. Digital image. StyleNotes - Appunti Di Stile. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. <http://www.stylenotes.it/2009/03/chanel.html>.

2. Chanel-Little Black Dress. Http:///toah/works-of-art/1984.28a-c. Digital image. Web.

3. Styles That Stick: The Chanel Suit - StyleList. Digital image. Stylelist. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. </2007/09/25/styles-that-stick-the-chanel-suit/>.

4. Chanel - Celebrities Wearing the Styles - Photos at InStyle.com. Runway Photos - Spring, Fall Styles - Designer Central Collections - Designer Central - InStyle. Web. 09 June 2010.

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