“A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.”
“Elegance is refusal.”
“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
“I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.”
“Fashion changes, but style endures.”
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
“Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.”
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
“I don’t do fashion. I am fashion.”
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
“Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”
“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”
“A woman can be overdressed but never over elegant.”
“Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.”
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.”
“A woman with good shoes is never ugly.”
“I don’t care what you think of me. I don’t think of you at all.”
“My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”
“If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack.”
“A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”
“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
“The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
Inspirational Coco Chanel Quotes
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
“It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”
“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise, it is not luxury.
My friends, there are no friends.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
