Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited with liberating women from the constraints of the “chord silhouette” in the post-World War I era and popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard style. A prolific fashion maker, Chanel extended her influence beyond couture clothing, embodying her design aesthetic in jewelry, handbags, and fragrances. Her signature, Chanel No. 5, has become an iconic product. She is the only fashion designer listed in Time magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century. Chanel herself designed her famous Interlock-CC monogram, which has been in use since the 1920s. Below are the best Coco Chanel Quotes about life, fashion, and true style that are must read for a trendy lady.
Coco Chanel Quotes
- “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. “ -Coco Chanel
- “A woman has the age she deserves.” -Coco Chanel
- “A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.” -Coco Chanel
- “I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.” -Coco Chanel
- “Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.” -Coco Chanel
- “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.” -Coco Chanel
- “A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.” -Coco Chanel
- “If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.” -Coco Chanel
- “I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little – if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.” -Coco Chanel
- “There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.” -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.” -Coco Chanel
- “Fashion is made to become unfashionable.” -Coco Chanel
- “The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.” -Coco Chanel
- “Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.” -Coco Chanel
- “It is unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.” -Coco Chanel
- “There is no fashion for the old.” -Coco Chanel
“I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.”
-Coco Chanel
- “I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can’t accept that it should originate there.” -Coco Chanel
- “I was the one who changed, it wasn’t fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.” -Coco Chanel
- “In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.” -Coco Chanel
- “A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.” -Coco Chanel
- “A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.” -Coco Chanel
- “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” -Coco Chanel
- “Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.” -Coco Chanel
- “How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.” -Coco Chanel”
- “Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger”. -Coco Chanel
- “Great loves too must be endured.” -Coco Chanel
- Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.” -Coco Chanel
- “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
- “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
- “Elegance is refusal.” -Coco Chanel
- “Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.” -Coco Chanel
“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”
-Coco Chanel
- “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.” -Coco Chanel
- “As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!” -Coco Chanel
- “Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.” -Coco Chanel
- “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.” -Coco Chanel
- “Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.” -Coco Chanel
- “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” -Coco Chanel
- “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” -Coco Chanel
- “There are people who have money and people who are rich.” -Coco Chanel
- “The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you.” -Coco Chanel
- “Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.” -Coco Chanel
- “Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.” -Coco Chanel
- “There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!” -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
- “Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.” -Coco Chanel
- “If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.” -Coco Chanel
- “How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.” -Coco Chanel
- “Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.” -Coco Chanel
- “Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs” -Coco Chanel
- “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.” -Coco Chanel
- “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” -Coco Chanel
- “I don’t care what you think of me. I don’t think of you at all.” -Coco Chanel
- “My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.” -Coco Chanel
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
-Coco Chanel
- “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.” -Coco Chanel
- “Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.” -Coco Chanel
- “Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.” -Coco Chanel
- “Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.” -Coco Chanel
- “The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.” -Coco Chanel