• Coco Chanel, 1910s

    coco chanel quotes, UNSPECIFIED - APRIL 08:  Gabrielle Chasnel called Coco Chanel (1883-1971), french fashion designer, here playing golf c.1910  (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)
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    Coco Chanel playing golf.

  • Coco Chanel, 1917

    UNSPECIFIED - APRIL 01:  Coco Chanel and her lover Arthur " Boy " Capel (mustache) with Constent Say on the beach in Saint Jean de Luz in 1917  (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)
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    Coco Chanel and Arthur Capel with Constent Say on the beach in Saint Jean de Luz. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1924

    coco chanel quotes, Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879 - 1953) at Chester Races with French fashion designer Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971), 1st May 1924. (Photo by Phillips/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    Hugh Grosvenor at Chester Races with French fashion designer Coco Chanel. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1928

    On right, Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) accompanied by his son Randolph (1911 - 1968) and Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971) at a meet of the Duke of Westminster's boar hounds, the 'Mimizan Hunt' near Dampierre, northern France.   (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    Winston Churchill and Coco Chanel (C) at a meet of the Duke of Westminster’s boar hounds, the ‘Mimizan Hunt’ near Dampierre, northern France. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1928

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    Coco Chanel in 1928.

  • Coco Chanel, 1929

    coco chanel quotes, French couturier Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (1883 - 1971) at her home, Fauborg, St Honore, Paris.   (Photo by Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    Coco Chanel at her home in Fauborg, St Honore in Paris. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1929

    coco chanel quotes, Gabrielle Chanel, known as Coco (1883 - 1971), top French couturier, at Fauborg, St Honore, Paris.   (Photo by Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    Coco Chanel in Paris. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1929

    coco chanel quotes, 30th May 1929:  Designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (1883 - 1971), wearing one of her suits in the grounds at Fauborg, St Honore, Paris.  (Photo by Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    30th May 1929: Designer Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel (1883 – 1971), wearing one of her suits in the grounds at Fauborg, St Honore, Paris. (Photo by Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

  • Coco Chanel, 1929

    French fashion designer Coco Chanel (1883-1971) wearing a design of her own creation poses in a garden on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, Paris, France, 30th May 1929. Chanel owned an apartment on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore. (Photo by Sasha/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    Coco Chanel wearing a design of her own creation poses in a garden on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore in Paris.

  • Coco Chanel, 1929

    coco chanel quotes, 30th May 1929:  French fashion designer Coco Chanel (Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, 1883-1971) (right) with Lady Abdy at Fanbourg St Honore in France.  (Photo by Sasha/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    Coco Chanel (R) with Lady Abdy at Fanbourg St Honore in France. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1931

    Gabrielle Chanel (1883 - 1971) known as Coco, the French couturier.   (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
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    Coco Chanel’s style through the years. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1931

    10th March 1931:  Portrait of French fashion designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (1883 - 1971) posing in her suite at the Hotel Pierre during her first visit to New York City. She wears a white silk jacket and pants with pearls.  (Photo by New York Times Co./Getty Images)
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    Coco Chanel posing in her suite at the Hotel Pierre during her first visit to New York City. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1932

    5/7/32: English socialite, Lady Pamela Smith (1914- 1982), standing beside French fashion designer Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971), at the Salons Haute Couture at 31, rue Cambon in Paris. Lady Smith is one of several London socialites to take up modelling.
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    Lady Pamela Smith (1914- 1982), standing beside French fashion designer Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971), at the Salons Haute Couture in Paris. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1932

    coco chanel quotes, French fashion designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (1883 - 1971) in New York City, 1932. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    French fashion designer Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel (1883 – 1971) in New York City, 1932. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1932

    French fashion designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (1883 - 1971) at a London hotel, 1932. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    Coco Chanel at a London hotel.

  • Coco Chanel, 1936

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    Coco Chanel in 1936.

  • Coco Chanel, 1944

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    Picture of the famous french high fashion designer Coco Chanel taken in 1944 in Paris. 

  • Coco Chane, 1954

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    Coco Chanel at her Paris salon.

  • Coco Chanel, 1950s

    Portrait of French fashion designer Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971) in her home (at 31 Rue Cambon), Paris, France, circa 1950s. (Photo by Rapho Agence/Photo Researchers History/Getty Images)
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    Portrait of French fashion designer Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971) in her home (at 31 Rue Cambon), Paris, France, circa 1950s. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1957

    coco chanel quotes, 1957:  French fashion designer Coco Chanel says goodbye to American department store executive Stanley Marcus as she boards an airplane in Dallas, Texas. Chanel had been visiting for the opening of a new Neiman-Marcus store. She holds a package from the store.  (Photo by Shel Hershorn/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    French fashion designer Coco Chanel says goodbye to American department store executive Stanley Marcus as she boards an airplane in Dallas, Texas. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1958

    coco chanel quotes, French fashion designer Coco Chanel is congratulated by French principal dancer Jacques Chazot after presenting her Spring-Summer collection in Paris, 30th January 1958.   (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
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    Coco Chanel is congratulated by French principal dancer Jacques Chazot after presenting her spring collection in Paris.

  • Coco Chanel, 1958

    French fashion designer Coco Chanel (C) is congratulated by French principal dancer Jacques Chazot (R) after presenting her Spring-Summer collection in Paris 30 January 1958. (Photo credit should read STF/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Coco Chanel (C) is congratulated by French principal dancer Jacques Chazot (R) after presenting her springcollection in Paris. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1963

    coco chanel quotes, French fashion designer and a businesswoman Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971) in Paris, France, 29th January 1963. (Photo by Michael Hardy/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    Coco Chanel in Paris. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1964

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    Coco Chanel at her apartment in France in 1964.

  • Coco Chanel, 1960s

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    Coco Chanel in the 1960’s.

  • Coco Chanel, 1960s

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    Coco Chanel in the 1960’s.

  • Coco Chanel, 1960s

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    Coco Chanel in the 1960s.

  • Coco Chanel, 1960s

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    Coco Chanel in the 1960s.

  • Coco Chanel, 1960s

    Nine Interesting Facts About Coco Chanel
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    Coco Chanel making alterations to a model’s jacket.

  • Coco Chanel, 1960s

    coco chanel quotes, La couturière Coco Chanel . (Photo by REPORTERS ASSOCIES/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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    Coco Chanel’s through the years. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1970

    La couturière Coco Chanel assistant à la première diffusion du film ?Tristana? de Luis Bunuel, le 28 avril 1970, en France. (Photo by Yves LE ROUX/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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    Coco Chanel at the premiere of “Tristana” on April 18, 1970. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1960s

    French fashion designer Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971) in her apartment at the Hotel Ritz Paris, 1960. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)
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    French fashion designer Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971) in her apartment at the Hotel Ritz Paris, 1960. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1960s

    coco chanel quotes, French fashion designer Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971) in her apartment at the Hotel Ritz Paris, circa 1960. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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    French fashion designer Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971) in her apartment at the Hotel Ritz Paris, circa 1960. 

  • Coco Chanel, 1960s

    Jacques Chazot et Coco Chanel lors d'une soirée à Paris à la fin des années 60, France. (Photo by STILLS/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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    Jacques Chazot and Coco Chanel. 

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