Quotes from 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.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

Elegance is refusal.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

A woman can be over-dressed but never over-elegant.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

The best things in life are free, the second best are very expensive.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Don’t be like the rest of them, darling.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

The more comfort you have, the more you can do.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

The best color in the 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.

Quotes from Coco Chanel part 2

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Elegance is refusal.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then theire outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

A woman can be over-dressed but never over-elegant.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

The best things in life are free, the second best are very expensive.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Don’t be like the rest of them, darling.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

The more comfort you have, the more you can do.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.