Coco Chanel Quotes

1883–1971, French Couturier
quotes
13
topics
12
Topic
“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
Fashion
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
Elegance
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
Fashion
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
Money
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
Uniqueness
“Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.”
Innovation
“There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.”
Time and Time Management
“Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.”
Dress
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”
Self-love
“I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.”
Men and Women
“A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.”
Style
“Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: ''One must not hide that!'' Then someone tells you: ''The shoulder is on the back.'' I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.”
Body