Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Coco Chanel
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
I’ve never done anything by halves.
Coco Chanel
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Coco Chanel
Fashion passes, style remains.
Coco Chanel
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.
Coco Chanel
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Coco Chanel
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything.
Coco Chanel
The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you.
Coco Chanel
A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.
Coco Chanel
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.
Coco Chanel
If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.
Coco Chanel
I don’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’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.
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
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel
There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
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
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Coco Chanel
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Coco Chanel
My friends, there are no friends.
Coco Chanel
Great loves too must be endured.
Coco Chanel
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
Elegance is refusal.
Coco Chanel
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Coco Chanel
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
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Coco Chanel
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Coco Chanel
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel
It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
Coco Chanel
I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
Coco Chanel
A woman has the age she deserves.
Coco Chanel
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
Coco Chanel
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
When I can no longer create anything, I’ll be done for.
Coco Chanel
Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.
Coco Chanel
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel
I was the one who changed, it wasn’t fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.
Coco Chanel
A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.
Coco Chanel
Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.
Coco Chanel
May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.
Coco Chanel
In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.
Coco Chanel
I’ve never done anything by halves.
Coco Chanel
My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
Coco Chanel
May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.
Coco Chanel