Coco Chanel Quotes - Page 7

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.

Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape.

I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.

Great loves too must be endured.

In truth, women are the strong ones.

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

Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.

Fashion passes, but style remains.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."

There is no fashion for the old.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

Before me no one would have dared dress in black

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.

Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.

Beauty comes when fashion succeeds