Quotes by
Coco Chanel |
1883-1971 , French fashion designer
Chanel was born into poverty in the French countryside; her mother died, and her father abandoned her to an orphanage.Her elegantly casual designs in the post-W I era inspired women of fashion to abandon the complicated, uncomfortable clothes—such as petticoats and corsets—that were prevalent in 19th-century dress. Among her now-classic innovations were the Chanel suit, the quilted purse, costume jewelry, and the “little black dress.”
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Quotations
| • | I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all. 6 |
| • | A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. 5 |
| • | How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone. 4 |
| • | I don’t do fashion, I AM fashion. 4 |
| • | Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. 4 |
| • | There are people who have money and people who are rich. 4 |
| • | 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 caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night. |
| • | Fashion is made to become unfashionable. |
| • | In 1919 I woke up famous. |
| • | Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions. |
| • | Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive. |
| • | In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. |
| • | As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Fashion fades, only style remains the same. |
| • | I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière — a real devil. |
| • | The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you. |
| • | Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. |
| • | Only those with no memory insist on their originality. |
| • | Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. |
| • | There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. |
| • | You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life. |
| • | A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant. |
| • | Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. |
| • | It is always better to be slightly underdressed. |
| • | Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. |
| • | My life didn’t please me, so I created my life. |
| • | A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future. |
| • | There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught. |
| • | The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive. |
| • | I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can’t accept that it should originate there. |
| • | I don’t know why women want any of the things men have, when one of the things that women have is men. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. |
| • | You live but once; you might as well have fun. |
| • | If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. |
| • | Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance! |
| • | I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman feels closest to being naked when she is well-dressed. |
| • | A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life. |
| • | Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds. |
| • | Passion goes, Boredom remains. |
| • | I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like. |
| • | Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside. |
| • | Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. |
| • | Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human condition. |
| • | A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. |
