Coco Chanel Quotes - Page 8

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.

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.

In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.

What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

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.

I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.

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

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Fashion changes, Style remains

It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.

In order to be different one must be irreplaceble.

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

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

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

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.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

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.

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 has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.

I have only one curiosity left: death.