Coco Chanel Quotes about Fashion - Page 2

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.

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

Elegance is refusal.

Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.

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.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

I'm for style - fashions change too often.

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

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.

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

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.

There is no fashion for the old.

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.