Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

I have much love for Chanel. Not the individual as much- she was a Nazi Spy. More the current season:

http://www.chanel.com/fashion/7#7-fall-winter-2011-12-ready-to-wear-chanel-fashion-show-23,0

Looks pretty cosy :)

Did you knoooow that Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel, got called coco because she used to sing in a Cabaret and 'Coco' was most probably from a song that she sang..

I also read that during the German occupation of France in the second world war, she had an affair with a Nazi. And when it got leaked, France didn't want to buy from her shops any more, because the Nazi's took over France. Apparently, she was also a bit of a Nazi as well.. As a result of losing business in France, she moved on to America. I don't think I would have liked her, but I admire her determination. In 1941, she tried to become the sole owner of 'Parfums Chanel' (which was actually owned by the Wertheimers who were Jewish), by using her rights as an Aryan. I think it's kinda ridic how she did that, and then made the Suntan look 'acceptable' in order to denote a life of privilege. Bare lolz

Chanel kinda reminds me of Marie Curie.. who is also an inspiration of mine. 

Both of them were part of rather big families

Both their mothers died when they were young, from Tuberculosis

Both ploughed on with their ambitions and interests, despite being females in a very male-orientated lifestyle.

Both had undergone phases where their work meant very little, due to personal decisions involving love life. Chanel and her Nazi lover, Hans Günther von Dincklage- France suddenly didn't want to purchase from her shops as much. Marie and her lover Paul Langevin, who was actually a former student of her ex-husbands. People saw her as a 'home wrecker'. She was advised not to collect her Nobel Prize, but she did anyway. And people respected her for this. 

Both were alive around the same time- World war 1.

Both of them contributed enormously to the field of Work they were involved in.. without them, the basic concepts of fashion and science would be different.

However..

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

-Coco Chanel

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

-Marie Curie

I'm not sure that they'd get on..