Coco Chanel Quotes

134 Coco Chanel Quotes

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Elegance in clothes means freedom to move freely.
Coco Chanel

I guess you could say I was rather lucky to be so successful when I first started.
Coco Chanel

I started creating costume jewelry because it felt it was refreshingly free of arrogance, during a period that tended toward ostentatious displays of luxury. This consideration faded away into the background during the economic recession, when in every sphere of life, there emerged an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Coco Chanel

A woman’s education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stockings, never to go out without a hat.
Coco Chanel

I can’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little, if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that is the day she had a date with destiny, and it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.
Coco Chanel

Christian Dior doesn’t dress women. He upholsters them.
Coco Chanel

Women should dress as plainly as their maids.
Coco Chanel

Women are not flowers. Why should they smell like them?
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I didn’t look like anyone.
Coco Chanel

I stick straight to my path, even when it bores me. I am its slave because it was I who freely chose it.
Coco Chanel



Money is just an allowance.
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 caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.
Coco Chanel

I can’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little…
Coco Chanel

Gentleness doesn’t get work done, unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Coco Chanel



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