Inspired By Coco Chanel

 "Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself." 
-Coco Chanel

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."
-Coco Chanel

"If you were born without wings, 
do nothing to prevent them from growing." 
-Coco Chanel

 

"My life didn't please me, so I created my life."

-Coco Chanel

"Fashion passes, style remains."  
-Coco Chanel

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."
-Coco Chanel

 "I only drink champagne on two occasions.  

When I am in love and when I am not." 
-Coco Chanel

"You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, 
and irresistable for the rest of your life." 
-Coco Chanel

"Simplicity is the keynote to all true elegance." 
-Coco Chanel

"The best color in the whole world 
is the one that looks good on you." 
-Coco Chanel

"Don’t spend time beating on a wall hoping 

to transform it into a door." -Coco Chanel

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." 
-Coco Chanel

"Success is often achieved by those 

who don't know that failure is inevitable." 

-Coco Chanel

"A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life." 

-Coco Chanel

"Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside."

-Coco Chanel

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only; fashion is something in the air. It's the wind that blows in the new fashion; you feel it coming, you smell it...in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." 

-Coco Chanel

"A woman with good shoes is never ugly." 

-Coco Chanel

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love.  That leaves no other time." 

-Coco Chanel

Vintage Chanel Blazer

Coco Chanel 1883-1971

Hello! I hope you are staying warm this winter because it's a cold one.  For today's topic, I wanted to ask who is your favorite fashion icon?  My favorite fashion icon is definitely Coco Chanel because of her ability to marry timeless style to the modern values of freedom, passion, and feminine elegance.

Coco Chanel also has some great quotes, so I wanted to share them with you in this inspirational post.  However, the outfit I'm wearing isn't Chanel.  The clothing and accessories in my outfit are vintage pieces "inspired" by Chanel and my boots are actually from Zara, although the last photo features an authentic vintage black and white Chanel blazer I found at a vintage show.  Do you own any Chanel items? And if so, what is your favorite designer piece?  My favorite Chanel item is the quilted handbag.

On a side note, my mother was an artist and taught me a few things about set design and art, so I decided to create a little DIY whimsical French set for these photos.  You've probably seen this set once before because I do batch photography.  What do you think of this set?  

If you could use your imagination to take you anywhere in the world, where would you travel to and why?

Hair: Drybar
Boots: Zara
Makeup: Elizabeth Jones
Clothing and Accessories: Vintage Items (not Chanel) from Retro Reload
Photography: Franz Swantko