Coco Chanel Fashion Quotations

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

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

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

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.

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.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

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.

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

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

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

Fashion is in the sky, in the street.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.

Fashion is everything that can pass fashionable

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

I'm for style - fashions change too often.

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever

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

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

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

Beauty comes when fashion succeeds

Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

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

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.

I don't do fashion, I'm fashion

Fashion passes, but style remains.

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

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

Fashion changes, Style remains

Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway

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

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

There is no fashion for the old.

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

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

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.

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.

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.

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.

Elegance is refusal.

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

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.