Coco Chanel Quotes

134 Coco Chanel Quotes

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Fashion fades, style is eternal.
Coco Chanel

I’m here to make a fortune!
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For me, money has never had the sound of anything else but freedom.
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You start by wanting money. Then you get swept away by the love of work.
Coco Chanel

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel

There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Coco Chanel

There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel

I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.
Coco Chanel

Dress shabbily, they notice the dress. Dress impeccably, they notice the woman.
Coco Chanel

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



Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel

Old clothes are old friends.
Coco Chanel

All men are children, and if understand that, a woman understands everything.
Coco Chanel

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Coco Chanel

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

What I make is picked up and copied by everybody.
Coco Chanel

Fashion that does not reach the street is not fashion.
Coco Chanel

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only; fashion is something in the air.
Coco Chanel

Ask me who I don’t dress!
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Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
Coco Chanel

Nothing makes a woman look older than obvious expensiveness and complication.
Coco Chanel

When you’re my age you don’t ask to see a gentleman’s passport.
Coco Chanel

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
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I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.
Coco Chanel

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.
Coco Chanel

I like fashion to go down into the street, but I can’t accept that it should originate there.
Coco Chanel

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.
Coco Chanel

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel



[At age 78] How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but someone.
Coco Chanel

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

When I can no longer create anything I’ll be done for.
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[On first riding in a car] What a horror, there are not even any horses.
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Nobody can live with low horizons.
Coco Chanel

Fashion has become a joke; the designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.
Coco Chanel

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.
Coco Chanel

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only; fashion is something in the air. It’s the wind that blows in the new fashion; you feel it coming, you smell it. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Coco Chanel

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel



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