Coco Chanel
27 quotes
Biography
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."
"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants."
"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."
"In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different."
"You live but once; you might as well be amusing."
"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."
"Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."
"My life didn't please me, so I created my life."
"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."
"A woman with good shoes i never ugly!"
"He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world."
"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 caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night"
"In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb."
"Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it."
"Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions."
"Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive."
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
"As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything."
"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."
"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."
"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."
"Ask me who I don't dress!"
"I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière — a real devil."
"The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you."