Coco Chanel Quotes
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Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.
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I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
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An interior is the natural projection of the soul.
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In order to be different one must be irreplaceble.
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I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
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I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.
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To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.
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I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
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Great loves too must be endured.
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Be classy. Anything but trashy.
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With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.
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It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.
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When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.
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I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.
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I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.
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I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.
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Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
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Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.
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After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.
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Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
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A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.
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Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.
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Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
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Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.