Coco Chanel Quotes

In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.

Coco Chanel

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• I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Good
  • Past

• I like to think of my customer and make sure that season after season she is getting what she wants. Ultimately, I suppose I have an image of myself. That is the person I am designing for - a woman who loves and appreciates fashion and luxury, and somebody who wants to feel empowered with the best version of themselves.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • She
  • Fashion
  • Myself

• High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • High
  • Fashion

• Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Fashion
  • Look
  • Clothes

• I don't spend a lot of money on clothes, which is weird because I am a fashion model, but when it comes to the new collections coming out, I am just praying designers send it to me for free.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Model

• I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Up
  • Day
  • Fashion

• I love the fashion world. I love clothes. I love style.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Fashion

• Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Like
  • Design
  • Act

• I don't think fashion is evil.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Think
  • Fashion
  • Evil

• No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Fun
  • Fashion
  • Sun

• Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Expansion

• I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Performance

• Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Fashion
  • Body
  • Architecture

• I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Fashion
  • Period
  • Animal

• Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Music
  • Fashion

• Fashion has always been a source of stress for me because I don't know how to dress myself. I'm short-torsoed with big boobs, and I don't really understand what a belt does. But you get on these shows, and people fit the clothing to you, and suddenly you learn, 'Oh, I should be wearing petite jackets.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Myself

• There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Persons
  • Easy
  • Judging

• I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Success
  • Ego
  • Competitive

• This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In a glitter of silly decorations. Behind the boys And the old men, Life weeps, And shreds her garments To the blowing winds.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• My old modus operandi was, if you're going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don't have one, have two. If you're going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box.

  

  Al Roker

• In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.

  

  Lynn Collins
  • Career
  • Identity

• In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Fashion
  • Upset
  • Succeeded