Coco Chanel quotes

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion A woman has the age she deserves. Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. Women have always been the strong ones of the world. Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu 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. The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive. There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time. Capel said, "Remember that you're a woman." All too often I forgot that. Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions. Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever. Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside. He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world. A woman with good shoes is never ugly! Simplicity is the key of elegance Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. 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. Only those with no memory insist on their originality. Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds. Passion goes, Boredom remains. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. I dont know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men. 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 should wear perfume wherever she wants to be kissed. I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like. Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel. A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life. Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. 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 There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time. Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. There are people who have money and people who are rich. Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses. Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger. There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. Be classy. Anything but trashy. In order to be irreplaceable one must be unique Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you! A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat. 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. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. Its probably not just by chance that Im alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless hes terribly strong. And if hes stronger than I, Im the one who cant live with him. Im neither smart nor stupid, but I dont think Im a run-of-the-mill person. Ive been in business without being a businesswoman, Ive loved without being a woman made

only for love. The two men Ive loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. Ive done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice. Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different. Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. You live but once; you might as well be amusing. Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all. My life didn't please me, so I created my life. Fashion changes, but style endures. If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future. 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. Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed. I don't do fashion, I AM fashion. As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

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. There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you. Elegance is refusal. 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. How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. 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. Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance! A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.