Coco Chanel Quotes

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Coco Chanel

Valentine's Day, Girl, Two

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel

Different, Order

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.
Coco Chanel

Live, Fashion, Ideas

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.
Coco Chanel

Women, Men, Mother

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

Men, Children, Long

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel

Time, Door, Spend

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.
Coco Chanel

Live, Young, Old

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Coco Chanel

Women, Future, Perfume

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
Coco Chanel

Fashion, Same, Style

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel

Courage, Yourself, Act

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

Future, Taken, Elegance

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel

Nature, Face, Fifty

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

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel

Failure, Success, Often

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.
Coco Chanel

Women, Men, Truth

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel

Fashion, Matter

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

Women, Men, Why

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Coco Chanel

Dress, Elegance, Consist

A woman has the age she deserves.
Coco Chanel

Age, Woman, She

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel

Poverty, Opposite, Luxury

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Coco Chanel

Truth, Hard, Times

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.
Coco Chanel

Time, Women, Alone

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

Yourself, Die, Boredom

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

Business, Love, Work

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

Nationality: French

Born: August 19, 1883

Died: January 10, 1971

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