I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don’t wear Chanel.
When I opened Chanel in London, they were happy. People would go, ‘Oh, I just came in to see it. It’s so beautiful.’ And you leave with a positive attitude toward the brand. Now, you don’t really get that online. You don’t go, like, ‘Wow.’
My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.
Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why.
I just get makeup from wherever I can. From Maybelline to Chanel – you know, all over the place.
There’s a lot of work that goes into it – if you think about how many collections a year that Karl Lagerfeld has to do, with Chanel and all the other things he does – you can’t do that unless you are working 18 hours a day. It’s really a lot of hard, hard work.
When Jackie Kennedy wanted to wear her favourite European designers, she was told no. She had to start working with brands like Adolfo, who had to create Chanel knock-offs because that’s what she wanted to wear.
When my son was little, we mothers always did the Halloween parties, and I would wear my orange-and-black Chanel. It comes in handy on October 31. I’m the chicest pumpkin around.
I like edgy but classic looks – like Chanel mixed with Alexander McQueen. My personal style is edgier. My closet is just black, gray, and white. I’m more comfortable in darker colors and leather jackets.
Getting to wear Chanel is my version of a fairy tale. Not that I would wear it every day – my style is more jeans and T-shirts – but it’s kind of fun.
I wear Chanel bronzer, maybe a little Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer Oil-Free Broad Spectrum SPF 20, and some lip balm, but that’s about it. One word to describe my makeup style would have to be ‘easy.’
My grandmother used to really love fashion, and she always had Chanel No. 5 on her dressing table, and Chanel bags. That’s when I really started falling in love with the brand and fashion in general.
Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you’re 52? Nobody’s going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It’s nice that you got to be so old. It’s a blessing.
I have to be more modest now that I’m a mama, but I loved those days when I could really wear what I wanted to. I do love crazy shoes and clothes. But I mean, come on, I’m 38, so even if I like a dress of Betsey Johnson, I have to say, ‘Stop it. Go for Chanel!’
In every single one of my purses, even my little satin clutch and my tiny Chanel bag, I always carry a lint roller. I keep them in every drawer, in every desk and nightstand. I just buy those at the dollar store in bulk.
I’m super drawn to the high-end brands because they’re made with such care and great materials. I really love Chanel, it’s my favorite.
My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.
Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
Chanel is my ultimate weakness.
I don’t wear heels. I’m all about flats from Chanel and wedges. I love my Gucci wedge boots.
I feel that, historically, the Art Deco period has the most resonance for me. As a person, it has to be the plucky Clara Bow, the heroine of American silent movies of the 1920s. She embodied feminine dressing mixed with men’s style. All this then evolved into the exquisite style and simplicity of Coco Chanel.
I’m so in love with Chanel’s perfume bottles. I grew up seeing my mom use Chanel No. 5, so it’s quite sentimental to me.
I love wearing Aqua de Gioia by Armani, and Chanel.
For an everyday look, I use Chanel Soleil Tan de Chanel as blush, or the Summer 2013 Bronzing Palette that a makeup artist from Armani gave to me – I love Armani makeup.
Sure, I’d like to be like the House of Chanel.
I remember being, like, 4 and 5 and playing in my mom’s closet. But also asking questions like ‘Who’s this?’ and ‘What’s that?,’ and my mom explaining to me, ‘This is a Chanel and this is a Versace.’
When I was growing up, my mother always wore Chanel.
Chanel is a brand that is so inspiring.
I would love to work with Karlie Kloss and model for Chanel. And I would love to be in a music video with Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift, my two favorite artists.
I always put on Chanel No 5 after I’ve had a bath or before I go to bed. If I’m going out, I’ll layer other fragrances on top.
I tell you why I like Chanel so much: when I started off, no one wanted to give me clothes to wear. Absolutely no one! All the labels said, ‘Who is she?’ But Chanel believed in me from the very beginning.
One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric – jerseys – we used the machine that made underwear to make something else.
Every Chanel show I’ve been to is very conceptual. Even down to the music and smells, the whole thing is connected.
Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into the ‘simple little black dress,’ the perfectly tailored suit, the bell-bottom sailor pants, and jersey tops.
I’m a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood… Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.
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