who needs the book when you can watch the movie

http://www.ultrapdx.com/zero/2008/08/15/looking-forward-to-coco-avant-chanel/

Chanel: Her style and her life by Janet Wallach I found to be one of the best , but giving the fact that there are so many books written about her life, and her life having been a cocktail mix of facts and ficton I think that only the reader can make up his or her mind self ....

I would like to share this anecdote about Paul Poiret and Mademoiselle Coco Chanel :

Paul Poiret stopped Coco Chanel on the street in Paris and gazed disdainfully at her shockingly simple frock, an early version of what would become her iconic little black dress. "Who are you in mourning for, mademoiselle?" sneered the man who put women in cascades of Belle Époque velvet. She witheringly replied, "For you, monsieur."

Horst P. Horst www.flickr.com/photos/ herry/2211541725/

.... and with that I would to share this famous quotes by Chanel :

" 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. "

" Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. "

" Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. "

' Elegance is refusal.'