Coco Chanel Quotes
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A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.
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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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Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.
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People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.
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Modesty is the highest elegance.
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Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
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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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Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.
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Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.
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Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.
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I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.
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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
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I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature.
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A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
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Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
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I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.
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A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
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An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.
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Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
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It is always better to be slightly underdressed.
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No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory.
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You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
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Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway.