Quotes & Sayings About Chanel

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

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

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep. — Coco Chanel

I'm grateful to look the way I do. However, if I could change anything, I would like to be a bit bigger all over. Not much - just a bit. — Chanel Iman

The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one. — Carine Roitfeld

I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay. — Famke Janssen

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

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. — Coco Chanel

You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time. — Coco Chanel

I feel like fashion and style is a big part of being an artist. — Chanel West Coast

In order to be different one must be irreplaceble. — Coco Chanel

Chanel lambskin, vintage Vanson I'm on the bike doing wheelies in a mansion — Nicki Minaj

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life, — Coco Chanel

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

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive. — Coco Chanel

A colorful Chanel bag is a way to mix up anything. — Ashley Madekwe

The more stupid and unlucky man is,
the more claims he makes to the woman. — Coco Chanel

Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts. — Coco Chanel

Capel said, "Remember that you're a woman." All too often I forgot that. — Coco Chanel

A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40. — Coco Chanel

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends — Coco Chanel

If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don't want to do PDA, it's not that I have something against you. — Coco Chanel

Sometimes life gives you cotton stockings. Sometimes it gives you a Chanel gown ... — Unknown

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

I'm not a great clothes shopper. I tend to get a lot from Chanel. But I do like to wear menswear. I love Martin Margiela, and I often take clothes from my boyfriend's closet. — Anna Mouglalis

Elegance is refusal. — Coco Chanel

My life didn't please me, so I created my life. — Coco Chanel

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity — Coco Chanel

I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic. — Jaclyn Smith

Perfume heralds a woman's arrival and prolongs her departure. — Coco Chanel

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory. — Karl Lagerfeld

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. — Bella Freud

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. — Coco Chanel

I'm for style - fashions change too often. — Coco Chanel

Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival. — Coco Chanel

I hadn't been looking for trouble, but it seemed that now that I'd found it, I wasn't running from it, either. — Chanel Cleeton

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion — 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

If a woman's in my bed, it's because I want her there. I'm not a child who gets bored with his toys after five minutes. If the guys you've been with treat you like that, then you've been screwing round with boys. Would't you rather fuck a man? — Chanel Cleeton

Accept yourself, love yourself. — Chanel Iman

Chanel makes an incredible red lip, and Tarte makes the best nude colors! I also love Giorgio Armani lipsticks - the Rouge d'Armani. — Behati Prinsloo

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion — Coco Chanel

This isn't a good idea."
"I know. It's a terrible idea. But right now, it feels like the best bad idea I've ever had. I have to be inside you. — Chanel Cleeton

Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today. — Coco Chanel

If you don't smell good, then you don't look good. — Katy Elizabeth

She had no time for anything humdrum, banal, or mundane - to the extent that the task of cleaning her desk at every night had to be done with a bottle of Perrier water and Chanel No. 5. — Anna Wintour

A girl should be two things:: classy & fabulous — Coco Chanel

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs ... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray. — Chanel Iman

I love Chanel. Chanel, Chanel, Chanel, Chanel! — Brad Goreski

Whenever you see somebody's style you feel like you get to know them a little bit better by how they're dressed. — Chanel West Coast

If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The only Father's Day tradition in my family is the annual conversation he and I have where I say, 'Hey, Dad, what do you want for Father's Day this year?' and he says, 'Nothing.' Then I ask my mom what I should get him and she says, 'He likes sandalwood soap, dangly jewelry and Chanel No. 5 perfume.' — Michael Showalter

She was the quintessential twenty-first-century woman: She could build a high-rise in a Chanel suit and Jimmy Choos, give lessons in multitasking, and freeze the heart of the coldest competitor with a single unblinking gaze over the rim of her ebony-framed reading glasses. But that persona was like a bodysuit that she pulled on at eight in the morning and peeled out of at five in the afternoon. — Donna Ball

It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class. — Coco Chanel

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

Sweetly, albeit hoarsely and with a burr, the girl started singing something scarcely comprehensible, but, judging by the women's faces in the stalls, very seductive:
Guerlain, Chanel no 5, Mitsuko, Narcissus noir, evening dresses, cocktail dresses.. — Mikhail Bulgakov

In truth, women are the strong ones. — Coco Chanel

True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease. — Coco Chanel

No, babe, you aren't gonna turn into a zombie. It's just a fever from the bite and from driving all night. You'll feel better in a few hours when you've had something to eat and drink. — Chanel Smith

Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult. — Coco Chanel

All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything. — Coco Chanel

Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects ... the list is endless. — Dries Van Noten

Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel. — John Galliano

Where Chanel came from in France is anyone's guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant - and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both. — Diana Vreeland

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. — Coco Chanel

On the red carpet, I need to be protected. When I wear a Chanel dress, I feel like I've earned the right to be there. And Karl Lagerfeld is so poetic, such an intelligent man. I like the way he has the power to draw attention. — Rinko Kikuchi

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become. — 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

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

People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone. — Coco Chanel

She was like a dream I'd given up long ago. A different life, a better me. A chance to wash the filth away. — Chanel Cleeton

Towles burn. Bathroom inferno! Chanel No. 5, it burns. Oil paintings of racehorses and dead pheasants burn. The reproduction Oriental carpets burn. Evie's bad dried flower arrangements, they're these little tabletop infernos. Too cute! Evie's Katty Kathy doll, it melts, then it burns. Evie's collection of big carnival stuffed animals - Cootie, Poochie, Pam-Pam, Mr. Bunnits, Choochie, Poo Poo and Ringer - it's fun-fur holocaust. Too sweet. Too precious. — Chuck Palahniuk

I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand. — Emma Watson

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. — Coco Chanel

I love St. Ives Apricot Scrub, and you can just get that at CVS - it's so good, though; it's my favorite! Usually I only use that when I shower, because if I don't shower, I'm usually too tired to wash my face and just use Maybelline cleansing wipes. And then I use Chanel Hydra Beauty Lotion. That's so good, I love it. — Gigi Hadid

A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist. — Coco Chanel

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources. — Coco Chanel

The Chanel woman? I don't even need to see; I smell her from round the corner. — Raf Simons

A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking. — Coco Chanel

I am totally, completely, 100% in love with fashion. I would wear Chanel gowns to the grocery store if I could. I'm a huge fan of Chanel and Versace, and I actually have always dreamed of designing my own line one day. — Ksenia Solo

A woman in love is helpless. — Coco Chanel

My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it's always been a dream of hers. — Chanel Iman

What ever makes you feel good do it! — Chanel Harry

You wear classic black Chanel with frightening aplomb. When you're not wearing those catastrophic muumuus. — Thea Harrison

Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume. — Coco Chanel

For me, Chanel just makes sense - like a story or a film. It's part of my life. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

Now I had babies confuse before. John Green Dudley, first word out a that boy's mouth was Mama and he was looking straight at me. But then pretty soon he calling everybody including hisself Mama and calling his daddy Mama too ... Nobody worry bout it. Course when he start playing dress-up in his sister's Jewel Taylor twirl skirts and wearing Chanel No. 5, we all get a little concern. — Kathryn Stockett

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

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever — Coco Chanel

Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one! — Coco Chanel

To personally modify the famous quote by Coco Chanel, I will leave you on this note;
A girl should do two things: who and whatever the hell she wants. — Miya Yamanouchi

Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig. — Coco Chanel

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

Never a button without a buttonhole. — Coco Chanel

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom. — Coco Chanel

Her insanely high Christian Louboutin stilettos made a click-clacking sound on the airport floor. Amber rolled a small Louis Vuitton luggage bag behind her. She wore a baby-blue Chanel skirt suit, which made her look like an elegant celebrity. Her hair was long and blond today and pinned up into a perfectly smooth up-do. A pair of gold earrings in the shape of four-leaf clovers and a matching pendant completed the outfit. — A.O. Peart

That's my next journey - to be a great actress. — Chanel Iman

To be irreplaceable you have to be different. — Coco Chanel

I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment. — Stephanie Szostak

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. — Coco Chanel