Quotes & Sayings About Fashion By Coco 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

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

Fashion passes, but style remains. — Coco Chanel

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

Fashion is in the sky, in the street. — Coco Chanel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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

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