Coco Chanel
fashion designer, textile designer, business executive, modiste, grand couturier, costume designer
Read on Wikipedia1883 – 1971
All Quotes by Coco Chanel
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
“I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.”
“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
“I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.”
“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 their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.”
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”
“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
“Great loves too must be endured.”
“My friends, there are no friends.”
“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.”
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
“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.”
“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”
“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
“A woman has the age she deserves.”
“Elegance is refusal.”
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
“It is always better to be slightly underdressed.”
“A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
“Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.”
“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.”
“There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!”
“Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.”
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
“As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.”
“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
“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 of the things that women have is men.”
“Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.”
“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
“I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.”
“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
“I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.”
“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 their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.”
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”
“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
“Great loves too must be endured.”
“My friends, there are no friends.”
“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.”
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”
“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
“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.”
“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”
“A woman has the age she deserves.”
“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
“A woman has the age she deserves.”
“Elegance is refusal.”
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
“It is always better to be slightly underdressed.”
“A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
“Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.”
“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.”
“There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!”
“Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.”
“As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.”
“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
“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 of the things that women have is men.”
“Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.”
“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”
“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
“Great loves too must be endured.”
“I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.”
“I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.”
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
“He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world”
“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.”
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”
“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.”
“There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.”
“Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.”
“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.”
“A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
“As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
“Ask me who I don't dress!”
“I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière — a real devil.”
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
“The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
“A woman with good shoes i never ugly!”
“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 their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.”
“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.”
“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”