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Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.
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When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on.
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Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautiful.
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I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.
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If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
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There are no ugly women, only lazy.
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Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.
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You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
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I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
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Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.
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Capel said, "Remember that you're a woman." All too often I forgot that.
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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
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It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
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Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
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Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
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Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
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It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.
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Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
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If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.
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The worse a woman feels, the better should she look.
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There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night
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Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
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Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.
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In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.