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Coco Chanel
French
Designer
About the author
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Fashion
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Man
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Life
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Want
#Men
#Women
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,
French
Designer
#Will
#Day
#Old
#Bed
A woman has the age she deserves.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Woman
#Age
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Desire
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Death
#Guilt
Great loves too must be endured.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Work
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,
French
Designer
#Ideas
#Fashion
#Sky
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Fashion
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,
French
Designer
#Time
#Fashion
#Women
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Style
#Fashion
Elegance is refusal.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Elegance
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,
French
Designer
#Future
#Possession
#Elegance
#Adolescence
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Dress
#Elegance
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Time
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Man
#Boredom
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Future
#Women
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Passion
#Boredom
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Children
#Men
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,
French
Designer
#World
#Men
#Mother
#Women
#Longing
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Order
It is always better to be slightly underdressed.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
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,
French
Designer
#Men
#Truth
#Women
#Opinion
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
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,
French
Designer
#Time
#Love
#Work
There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#People
#Money
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Act
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#People
#Luxury
#Poverty
#Vulgarity
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Nature
#Merit
My friends, there are no friends.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Friends
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Luxury
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Success
#Failure
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Coco Chanel,
French
Designer
#Woman
#Dress