Coco Chanel Quotes
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In order to be different one must be irreplaceble.
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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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With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.
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Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
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Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
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Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.
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Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.
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He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world
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Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.
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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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If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.
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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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Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
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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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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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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.
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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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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
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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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No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory.
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I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.
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There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.
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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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Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.