Coco Chanel Quotes
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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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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
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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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Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
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I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.
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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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It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.
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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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A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
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A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
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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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I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.
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Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
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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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He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world
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You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.
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There are people who have money and people who are rich.
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
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True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.
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There is no fashion for the old.
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May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.
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Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style.