Coco Chanel

Everyone knows the brand name, and we can see her name almost everywhere. Having built a fashion empire and a timeless brand, Coco Chanel had achieved almost everything except for one: marriage. Sure, she was romantically involved with a lot of high-profile personalities, but she never walked down the aisle. Her past romance with the poet Pierre Reverdy and the designer Paul Iribe were all over the news in the late 1920s.

But what’s even more intriguing to a huge degree is that someone had actually asked her hand for marriage. Maybe you’ve already heard of the story that Hugh Grosvenor, the second Duke of Westminster, once proposed to the designer. We bet you already know what happened next! Of course, Chanel refused and said, “There are lots of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.” Wow, she was such a tough woman!