Coco Chanel Quotes

France, Fashion Designer
August 19, 1883 – January, 10, 1971.

Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a French fashion designer and a business woman. She was the founder and namesake of the Chanel brand. Chanel was credited in the post-World War I era with liberating women from the constraints of the "corseted silhouette" and popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style. A prolific fashion creator, Chanel extended her influence beyond couture clothing, realising her design aesthetic in jewellery, handbags, and fragrance. Her signature scent, Chanel No. 5, has become an iconic product.

Also known as Businesswoman

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Coco Chanel
- Time
- Work
- Love
The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20's, amazing in your 40's and stay fabulous for the rest of your life.

Coco Chanel

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

Coco Chanel
- Art
- Creativity
- Sources
Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

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Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel
A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have.

Coco Chanel
- Man
- Dressed
- Accessory
Modesty is the highest elegance.

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- Modesty
- Elegance
My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.

Coco Chanel
- Choosing
- Diamonds
- Volume

Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!

Coco Chanel
- Wear
- Perfume
- Kissed
One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

Coco Chanel
- Ugliness
- Negligence
Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.

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- Soul
- Beauty
- Cosmetics
I have only one curiosity left: death.

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- Death
- Curiosity
Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity.

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- Lies
- Richness
- Vulgarity
People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.

Coco Chanel
- Success
- Secret
- Laughed

I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

Coco Chanel
- Life
- Moral
- Trained
It's always better to be underdressed.

Coco Chanel
- Better
- Underdressed
There is no fashion for the old.

Coco Chanel
- Fashion
- Old
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Coco Chanel
- People
- Poverty
- Vulgarity
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

Coco Chanel
- Science
- Beauty
- Adornment
A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

Coco Chanel
- Women
- Pearls
- Ropes

My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself.

Coco Chanel
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature.

Coco Chanel
Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.

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An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.

Coco Chanel