The World According to Coco Chanel
To Do: Pick one of the quotes below to use as the basis of a fashion poster.
- Your poster should have some type of hand drawn/painted fashion illustration incorporated into the design.
- The quote should be executed in a creative way. *Make sure you put Coco Chanel’s name under the quote.
- The finished poster should be executed in illustrator. *This means you will need to scan your original artwork into the computer.
- Think about the composition, you can add a background design/image for more interest.
Below are Quotes from the famous designer Coco Chanel.
Quotes Pick one
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
“I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”
“Fashion changes, but style endures.”
“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
“I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.”
“Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”
“The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
1883– 1971
With her trademark suits and little black dresses, fashion designer Coco Chanel created timeless designs that are still popular today.
Fun Fact - She was the only fashion designer to be named on Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century
- She was born in France in 1883 and was part of a big family, as one of five children.
- When Coco was 12, her mother passed away from tuberculosis and her father left the family; she spent the next six years in an orphanage.
- She became a licensed hat-maker and owned her first shop in 1910.
- She introduced her first perfume, Chanel No. 5, in 1922, and it was one of the first perfumes ever to mix natural and artificial essences.
- She invented the "Little Black Dress" in 1926, which French Vogue dubbed "Chanel's Ford", for its practicality and marketability.
- She is credited with popularizing the concept of "costume jewelry" in the 1920s, creating seasonal jewelry that mixed fake pearls with real stones.
- She introduced the idea of using jersey fabric to create clothing, which had prior been used only for men's undergarments.
- She and her brand are most well known for costume jewelry, two-tone shoes, quilted bags, and simple suits made of tweed or jersey.
- Her classic Chanel suit became famous for its flattering cut, simple fabric, and specially weighted lining, to give it that perfect hang.
- She died in 1971 at the Ritz Hotel in Paris at the age of 88.