Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coco Chanel

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.

Coco Chanel

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

Coco Chanel

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

Coco Chanel

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

Coco Chanel

Fashion is in the sky, in the street.

Coco Chanel

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only

Coco Chanel

Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.

Coco Chanel

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 captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night

Coco Chanel

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

Coco Chanel

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

Coco Chanel

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

Coco Chanel

Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.

Coco Chanel

Fashion is everything that can pass fashionable

Coco Chanel

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

Coco Chanel

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

Coco Chanel

I'm for style - fashions change too often.

Coco Chanel

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever

Coco Chanel

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.

Coco Chanel

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Coco Chanel

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

Coco Chanel

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

Coco Chanel

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

Coco Chanel

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

Coco Chanel

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Coco Chanel

Beauty comes when fashion succeeds

Coco Chanel

Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

Coco Chanel

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

Coco Chanel

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.

Coco Chanel

I don't do fashion, I'm fashion

Coco Chanel

Fashion passes, but style remains.

Coco Chanel

A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.

Coco Chanel

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

Coco Chanel

Fashion changes, Style remains