Coco Chanel Quotes
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Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.
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As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
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There is no fashion for the old.
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Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.
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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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If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.
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Women have always been the strong ones of the world.
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Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
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Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.
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If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don't want to do PDA, it's not that I have something against you.
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The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.
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Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway.
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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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A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.
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There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.
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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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Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape.
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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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I'm for style - fashions change too often.
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In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.
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Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.
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If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
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Keep your heels, head & standards high!
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I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.