Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coco Chanel

Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway

Coco Chanel

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

Coco Chanel

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Coco Chanel

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

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

There is no fashion for the old.

Coco Chanel

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

Coco Chanel

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics

Coco Chanel

Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.

Coco Chanel

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.

Coco Chanel

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

Coco Chanel

Elegance is refusal.

Coco Chanel

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Coco Chanel

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.

Coco Chanel

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

Coco Chanel

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

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Coco Chanel

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.

Claire Messud

It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.

Elizabeth Scott

I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.

Elizabeth Taylor

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

Eli Whitney

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

ASAP Ferg

I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.

ASAP Rocky

I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being in poverty, so they want to look good to keep themselves up.

ASAP Rocky

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

ASAP Rocky

I wouldn't mind collaborating with anybody, but I don't want to design anything, I'm not a fashion designer.

ASAP Rocky

Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part.

ASAP Rocky

So for me, fashion was about standing out as an individual - and it helped me get the attention that most people try to get with publicity stunts or by doing other crazy things. But I just let the attention come to me naturally, and I think some of that has to do with my fashion.

ASAP Rocky

It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.

ASAP Rocky

Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.

Arthur Henderson

The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.