Coco Chanel Quotes about Fashion - Page 3

Beauty comes when fashion succeeds

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.

Fashion changes, Style remains

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

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 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.

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

Fashion is everything that can pass fashionable

Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

Fashion is in the sky, in the street.

I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.