Coco Chanel

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Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Beauty
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A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Interesting
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Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Doe
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Keep your heel, head and standards high.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Standards
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Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Stupid
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True generosity means accepting ingratitude.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Mean
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If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Add
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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
Collection: Apology
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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.
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Collection: Important
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J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.
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Collection: Wonderful
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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
Collection: Thinking
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There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.
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Collection: People
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Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Beautiful
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Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Memories
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A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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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
Collection: Nice
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I've never done anything by halves.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Done
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Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Departure
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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Inspirational
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Passion goes, Boredom remains.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Passion
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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
Collection: Fashion
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Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Long
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A woman with good shoes i never ugly!
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Cutting
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One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Happiness
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Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Reason
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I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Past
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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
Collection: Beautiful
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In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Thinking
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I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Paris
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I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Ideals
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In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Stupid
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I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Littles
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Men
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Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Giving
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There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Taught
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Fashion changes, Style remains
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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In order to be different one must be irreplaceble.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Order
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When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Creative
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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 have never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Determined
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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 caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion