Coco Chanel

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Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Beautiful
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If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Boys
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A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Warrior
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As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Wish
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May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Happy Life
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I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Boys
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Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Advice
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Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Coquetry
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Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: War
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Fashion is everything that can pass fashionable
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Laughing
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That's what fame is: solitude.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Solitude
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The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: People
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Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Looks
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One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Used
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Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Dream
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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.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Long
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Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Voice
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Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Spiritual
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As extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Children
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Ask me who I don't dress!
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Dresses
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Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Long
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Fashion is in the sky, in the street.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Travel
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A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Inspirational
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A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Two
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I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Strong
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Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Simple
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God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Men
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I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Lying
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The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Dresses
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Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Happiness
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In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Teamwork
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A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Men
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An interior is the natural projection of the soul.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Soul
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Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Life
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Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Men
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The worse a woman feels, the better should she look.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Looks
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Money for me has only one sound: liberty.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Liberty
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Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Art
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There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: People
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Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Trying
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If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fear