A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
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Quotes by Coco Chanel
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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
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.
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.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
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.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
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.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Elegance is refusal.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
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.
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