Coco Chanel Quotes About Fashion, Beauty & Love
Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. Here are some famous Coco Chanel quotes & sayings.
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Coco Chanel Quotes About Women
- “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
- “Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”
- “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.”
- “A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”
- “There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman”
- “Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm.”
- “For a woman betrayal has no sense – one cannot betray one’s passions.”
- “A woman’s education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.”
- “I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little – if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”
- “You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
- “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.”
Coco Chanel Quotes About Beauty
- “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
- “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”
- “Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.”
- “You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
- “Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”
- “Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,
- but to make them beautiful”
- “Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”
Coco Chanel Lipstick Quote
- “If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep.”
- “If you’re sad, if you are disappointed in love, put on your makeup, give yourself some beauty care, put on lipstick, and attack.”
Coco Chanel Bag Quotes
- “Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
- “Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
- “A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion”
- “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.”
- “Costume jewellery and accessories is not made to give women an aura of wealth,
- but to make them beautiful”
- “Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”
Coco Chanel Fashion Quotes
- “Fashion changes, but style endures.”
- “The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
- “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.”
- “I don’t do fashion, I AM fashion.”
- “Fashion fades. Only style remains the same.”
- “Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.”
- “Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
- “Be classy. Anything but trashy.”
- “Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
- “Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
- “A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion”
- “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.”
Coco Chanel Quotes About Perfume
- “A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”
- “Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.”
Coco Chanel Quotes About Luxury
- “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
- “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.”
- “Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity”
- Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel Quotes About Love
- “There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
- “Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.”
- “Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.”
- “There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.”
Inspirational Coco Chanel Quotes
- “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
- “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
- “Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.”
- “to achieve great things, we must first dream”
- “Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”
- “Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics”
- “As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
- “If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
- “I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
- “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
Coco Chanel Quotes About Dress
- “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
- “Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.”
- “Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
- “I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around”
- “There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night”
- “A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.”
- “A woman can be overdressed but never over elegant.” Said Coco Chanel about little black dress.
- “I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.”
- “A woman with good shoes i never ugly!”
- “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.”
- “Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
- “When I find a colour darker than black, I’ll wear it. But until then, I’m wearing black!”
Coco Chanel Quotes About Age
- “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
- “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
- “There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
- “nothing makes a woman look older than obvious expensiveness, ornateness, complicatpon”
- “No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost – unloved she might as well die.”
- “A woman has the age she deserves.”
- “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
- “No one is young after forty, but one can be irresistible at any age”
Coco Chanel Quotes About Wisdom
- “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
- “In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
- “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
- “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
- “Only those with no memory insist on their originality.”
- “Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.”
Coco Chanel Quotes About Life
- “In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
- “I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
- “There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
- “In 1919 I woke up famous. I’d never guessed it. If I’d known I was famous, I’d have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.”
- “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
- “My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”
- “How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
- “The best things in life are free. The second-best things are very, very expensive.”
- “Passion goes, Boredom remains.”
- “The best things in life are free. The second best are very, very expensive.”
Coco Chanel Quotes About Hair
- “A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”
