“I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”
— Coco Chanel
“My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”
“The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.”
“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
“Beauty begins in the moment you decide to be yourself.”
“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
“I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.”
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
“In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
“There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.”
“Elegance is refusal.”
“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
“Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.”
“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
“Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.”
“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
“To achieve great things, we must first dream.”
“Modesty is the highest elegance.”
“A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.”
“Only those with no memory insist on their originality.”
“The right ingredients can create a legend.”
“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”
“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”
“The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
“It’s not the appearance, it’s the essence. It’s not the money, it’s the education. It’s not the clothes, it’s the class.”
“If you are sad, If you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep.”
“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants...”
“With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.”
“Keep your heel, head and standards high.”
“Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.”
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
“Money for me has only one sound: liberty.”
“No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory.”
“It’s not the rooms, it’s the life you live in them.”
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
“When I find a colour darker than black, I’ll wear it. But until then, I’m wearing black!”
“Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style.”
“Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway.”
“The best accessory for a woman – handsome man!”
“There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.”
“I invented my life because I wasn’t pleased with it.”
“J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.”
“The worse a woman feels, the better should she look.”
“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.”
“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
“A woman with good shoes i never ugly!”
“Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity.”
“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.”
“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.”
“One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.”
“There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!”
“True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.”
“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.”
“If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.”
“I’m so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn’t make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.”
“It is always better to be slightly underdressed.”
“Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu.”
“Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.”
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
“A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.”
“Be classy. Anything but trashy.”
“Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.”
“Coquetry, it’s a triumph of the spirit over the senses.”
“That’s what fame is: solitude.”
“The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion.”
“When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you’ve put on.”
“True generosity means accepting ingratitude.”
“Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.”
“It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.”
“I’ve never done anything by halves.”
“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
“Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.”
“Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.”
“Great loves too must be endured.”
“Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.”
“The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.”
“Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever.”
“Passion goes, Boredom remains.”
“Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.”
“Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.”
“Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.”
“He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.”
“If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack.”
“I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.”
“Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.”
“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
“Fashion is in the sky, in the street.”
“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.”
“Before me no one would have dared dress in black.”
“Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.”
“Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.”
“I was the one who changed, it wasn’t fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.”
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