Coco Chanel Fashion 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

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart. — Coco Chanel

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck. — Coco Chanel

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,
but to make them beautifu — Coco Chanel

Fashion changes, but style endures. — Coco Chanel

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside. — 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

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

After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda. — Coco Chanel

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. — Coco Chanel

Fashion passes, but style remains. — Coco Chanel

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. — Coco Chanel

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics — Coco Chanel

Be classy. Anything but trashy. — Coco Chanel

Fashion is in the sky, in the street. — 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: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful. — Coco Chanel

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future. — Coco Chanel

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. — Coco Chanel

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. — Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet. — Carine Roitfeld

There is no fashion for the old. — Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white. — C. JoyBell C.

Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never. — Coco Chanel

Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape. — Coco Chanel

I don't do fashion, I'm fashion — Coco Chanel

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like. — Coco Chanel

Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road. — Coco Chanel

It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure. — Coco Chanel

Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel — Justine Picardie

Everyone else got to wear their regular outfits from the first movie. I had to wear my outfit that Jabba picked out for me. Jabba the Hutt - the fashionista. Jabba the Hutt - the Coco Chanel of intergalactic style. Trendsetter, fashion maven, leader of women's looks in his world, on his planet and the next. In wax, I would forever be outfitted by outlaw Jabba. In wax and out, I would forever be stone-faced. — Carrie Fisher

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

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

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

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever — Coco Chanel

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

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

Elegance is refusal. — Coco Chanel

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

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

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

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion — 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

Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway — Coco Chanel

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

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

Fashion fades, only style remains the same. — 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

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

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

Fashion is everything that can pass fashionable — Coco Chanel

Fashion is made to become unfashionable. — 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

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance! — Coco Chanel

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there. — Coco Chanel