Famous Quotes From Coco Chanel
My favorite quotes from the Queen of Fashion and my Idol.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
? Coco Chanel
“In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
? Coco Chanel
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
? Coco Chanel
“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
? Coco Chanel
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
? Coco Chanel
“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
? Coco Chanel
“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
Fashion is music and moving pictures.
– Marisa Sung
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
? Coco Chanel
“My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”
? Coco Chanel
“Fashion changes, but style endures.”
? Coco Chanel
“A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”
? Coco Chanel
“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
? Coco Chanel
“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
? Coco Chanel
“I don’t do fashion, I AM fashion.”
? Coco Chanel
“Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.”
? Coco Chanel
“Elegance is refusal.”
? Coco Chanel
“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.”
? Coco Chanel
Amen! Women who are frumpy are an embarrassment to society!
“The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
? Coco Chanel
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
? Coco Chanel
Very true as we all know of many rich women who are quite vulgar! Unfortunately I do.
“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.”
? Coco Chanel
It must fit like a glove.
“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
? Coco Chanel
“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
“Only those with no memory insist on their originality.”
? Coco Chanel
“A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.”
? Coco Chanel
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
? Coco Chanel
See, it takes work and money! You cannot age gracefully. Women who tell you to accept old age are simply dumb and in denial.
“Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”
? Coco Chanel
“Passion goes, Boredom remains.”
? Coco Chanel
“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.”
? Coco Chanel
“Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.”
? Coco Chanel
“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
? Coco Chanel
“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
? Coco Chanel
“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.”
? Coco Chanel
“To achieve great things, we must first dream.”
? Coco Chanel
“Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.”
? Coco Chanel
“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
? Coco Chanel
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
? Coco Chanel
“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
? Coco Chanel
“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
? Coco Chanel
My Favorite and I Mean It!