Chanel Coco Quotes & Sayings

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

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 don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men. — Coco Chanel

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

What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else. — Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion changes, but style endures. — Coco Chanel

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

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. — 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

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything! — Coco Chanel

I've been inspired by Coco Chanel. She broke all the rules of her time when she was designing. She pretty much revolutionized the way that women dressed at the time, and in doing that, she modernized the way they looked because they could move more freely in their clothes. — Maureen Chiquet

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. — Coco Chanel

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion. — Coco Chanel

My friends, there are no friends. — Coco Chanel

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

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls. — Coco Chanel

For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions. — Coco Chanel

Fashion passes, but style remains. — 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

God knows I wanted love ... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses ... I chose the dresses — Coco Chanel

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

Fashion is everything that can pass fashionable — Coco Chanel

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. — Coco Chanel

The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20's, amazing in your 40's and stay fabulous for the rest of your life. — 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

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it. — Coco Chanel

A woman with good shoes i never ugly! — Coco Chanel

Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch. — Coco Chanel

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly. — Coco Chanel

True generosity means accepting ingratitude. — Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans. — Coco Chanel

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin. — Coco Chanel

"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed." — Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel really wanted to have freedom of a man, and at first the only way she could find that freedom was through the clothes. They freed her movement; she got rid of the corset. This imposed her not as a decoration but as a real personality. She invented a new way of seductions through these clothes. — Audrey Tautou

It's always better to be underdressed. — Coco Chanel

What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it. — Karl Lagerfeld

That's what fame is: solitude. — Coco Chanel

I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more - how do I put it? - understanding. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Fashion fades, only style remains the same. — Coco Chanel

He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right. — 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

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you. — Coco Chanel

If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress, and if she's impeccably dressed, you notice the woman. — Coco Chanel

A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism. — Coco Chanel

I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all. — Coco Chanel

Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us. — Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing. — Iris Apfel

I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle. — Coco Chanel

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. — Coco Chanel

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

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

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

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

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

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever — 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

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

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

In truth, women are the strong ones. — 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

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

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

My life didn't please me, so I created my life. — 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 poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion — Coco Chanel

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

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

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

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

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

Elegance is refusal. — Coco Chanel

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

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

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

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

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

A woman in love is helpless. — Coco Chanel

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

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

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