Coco Chanel Quotes

The Ritz, January 10, 1971

Chanel died on January 10, 1971, in her suite at the Ritz Paris. She was eighty-seven. She had been working on her spring collection that afternoon. Her last words were reportedly: 'You see, this is how you die.' She never married. She never had children. She lived alone in a hotel room for the last decades of her life. The orphan who learned to sew from nuns built a brand worth over $15 billion today. She is still the only fashion designer most people in the world can name.