Victoria

“The easiest thing to sell is truth.”
― Daymond John, The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage

“One of her earliest innovations involved cutting open the front of men’s sweaters and adding buttons or ribbon trim—thus giving rise to the precursor of the cardigan, which later became one of her staples. The origin of this idea had been simple: Coco disliked pulling men’s sweaters, with their tight neck openings, over her head and mussing her hair.”
― Rhonda K. Garelick, Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History

“When Coco couldn’t squeeze herself into something one way, she simply found—or created—another way, even if she needed a sharp instrument to do it.”
― Rhonda K. Garelick, Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History

“Thin, androgynous, simply dressed in striped naval-uniform-style suits, or schoolboy sports clothes and blazers, the “Chanel woman” conjured the silhouette of the war’s millions of soldiers—the young men dying just out of sight of the general population.”
― Rhonda K. Garelick, Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History