Top 100 Quotes About Coco Chanel
#1. Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
Carine Roitfeld
#2. Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
Iris Apfel
#3. Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.
Coco Chanel
#4. Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel
Justine Picardie
#5. Over the next hour and a half, I came to the conclusion that Emilia Rhodes was either the devil incarnate or the second coming of Coco Chanel.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#6. My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.
Bella Freud
#7. I've been inspired by Coco Chanel. She broke all the rules of her time when she was designing. She pretty much revolutionized the way that women dressed at the time, and in doing that, she modernized the way they looked because they could move more freely in their clothes.
Maureen Chiquet
#8. My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.
Theophilus London
#9. To personally modify the famous quote by Coco Chanel, I will leave you on this note;
A girl should do two things: who and whatever the hell she wants.
Miya Yamanouchi
#10. Luxury is a necessity that starts where necessity stops. - COCO CHANEL (ATTRIB.):
Clive James
#11. I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more - how do I put it? - understanding.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#12. Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white.
C. JoyBell C.
#13. Coco Chanel said take one thing off. I always said put another one on.
Iris Apfel
#14. Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects ... the list is endless.
Dries Van Noten
#15. Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why.
Mary Quant
#16. What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
Karl Lagerfeld
#17. I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.
Coco Chanel
#18. No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
Diana Vreeland
#19. You're not exactly the father I'd choose for my children. (Coco Chanel)
Chris Greenhalgh
#20. Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#21. Before me no one would have dared dress in black
Coco Chanel
#22. "Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."
Coco Chanel
#23. I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not
Coco Chanel
#24. 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
Coco Chanel
#25. I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.
Coco Chanel
#26. After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.
Coco Chanel
#27. There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.
Coco Chanel
#28. He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world.
Coco Chanel
#29. Perfume heralds a woman's arrival and prolongs her departure.
Coco Chanel
#30. If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
Coco Chanel
#31. All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.
Coco Chanel
#32. 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
#33. Women have always been the strong ones of the world.
Coco Chanel
#34. Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.
Coco Chanel
#35. For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.
Coco Chanel
#36. Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.
Coco Chanel
#37. Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
Coco Chanel
#38. As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
Coco Chanel
#39. 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
#40. It's always better to be underdressed.
Coco Chanel
#41. 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.
Coco Chanel
#42. A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.
Coco Chanel
#43. I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.
Coco Chanel
#44. It is always better to be slightly underdressed.
Coco Chanel
#45. 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
#46. Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style
Coco Chanel
#47. If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress, and if she's impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
Coco Chanel
#49. Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever
Coco Chanel
#52. A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period
Coco Chanel
#53. Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
Coco Chanel
#54. Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.
Coco Chanel
#55. If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.
Coco Chanel
#56. To achieve great things, we must first dream.
Coco Chanel
#57. Keep your heel, head and standards high.
Coco Chanel
#58. As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Coco Chanel
#59. Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.
Coco Chanel
#60. There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.
Coco Chanel
#61. When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!
Coco Chanel
#63. I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.
Coco Chanel
#64. God knows I wanted love ... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses ... I chose the dresses
Coco Chanel
#65. Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Coco Chanel
#66. I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around
Coco Chanel
#67. There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman
Coco Chanel
#68. In order to be different one must be irreplaceble.
Coco Chanel
#69. A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.
Coco Chanel
#70. I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.
Coco Chanel
#71. A girl shout be two things: classy and fabulous.
Coco Chanel
#72. I have only one curiosity left: death.
Coco Chanel
#73. Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young
Coco Chanel
#74. It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them
Coco Chanel
#76. Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.
Coco Chanel
#77. As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.
Coco Chanel
#78. 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
#79. Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.
Coco Chanel
#80. Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
Coco Chanel
#81. Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
Coco Chanel
#82. Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
Coco Chanel
#84. Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Coco Chanel
#85. Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Coco Chanel
#86. Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends
Coco Chanel
#87. 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
#88. A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
Coco Chanel
#89. A woman without perfume is a woman without a future.
Coco Chanel
#91. How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
#92. No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.
Coco Chanel
#93. One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.
Coco Chanel
#94. Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!
Coco Chanel
#95. Passion always goes, and boredom stays.
Coco Chanel
#96. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel
#97. Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel
#98. Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
Coco Chanel
#99. Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.
Coco Chanel
#100. I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.
Coco Chanel
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