"Fashion goes out of Style - Style never goes out of Fashion" - Coco Chanel Born Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel 19 August 1883 in Samur, France. Died 10 January 1971(Age 87) in Paris, France. Chanel was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. Her influence on haute couture was such that she was the only person in the field to be named on TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century. File:Chanel.jpeg Coco Chanel, 1920