Success is Most Often achieved by those who do not Know that Failure is Inevitable

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

– Coco Chanel

Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” 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. She was the founder of the famous fashion brand: Chanel. Her extraordinary influence on haute couture was such that she became the only person in this field to be named on Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

Coco & Igor is a novel, written by Chris Greenhalgh, which depicts the affair between Chanel and Igor Stravinsky and the creative achievements that this affair inspired. The novel was first published in 2003. In 2008 a children’s book entitled Different like Coco was published. The book describes her life, a modest little girl’s childhood, high life and chronicles of a beautiful lady of fashion, of course.