Coco Chanel Quotes
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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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Be classy. Anything but trashy.
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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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I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
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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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Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
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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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It's always better to be underdressed.
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A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
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A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.
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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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With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.
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He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world
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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 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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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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You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
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I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.
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Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.