Coco Chanel was a fashion icon and one of the most influential designers of the 20th century. She was known for her unique style and her ability to transform fashion trends. Coco Chanel quotes are just as memorable as her designs.
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was born on August 19, 1883, in Saumur, France. Chanel’s early life was difficult, as she was orphaned at a young age. However, Chanel used her creative talents to launch a successful career in fashion. Chanel became a fashion icon, and her designs are still popular today.
Coco Chanel is credited with changing the way women dress, and her influence is still seen in fashion today. What many people don’t know is that Chanel’s iconic designs were not created overnight. She spent years refining her ideas and perfecting her craft.
One of the things that made Chanel’s designs so unique was her use of simple, natural materials. She believed that clothes should be comfortable and wearable, and that they should flatter the figure. Chanel was also one of the first designers to use black in her designs.
Chanel’s designs were heavily influenced by her own personal style and experiences. For example, the Chanel suit was designed after she observed men wearing military uniforms. And the Chanel bag was inspired by the straps that her laundry woman used to carry her clothes.
Even after her death in 1971, Chanel‘s influence continues to be seen in fashion. Her timeless designs are still popular today, and her legacy lives on in the work of the many designers who continue to be inspired by her.
Here are some of our favorite Coco Chanel quotes
Coco Chanel Quotes
- “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
2. “The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
3. “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
4. “A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”
5. “I only drink champagne on two occasions. When I am in love and when I am not”
6. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
7. “Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
8. “In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
9. “If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
10. “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
Coco Chanel Quotes on Fashion
11. “Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
12. “I don’t do fashion, I AM fashion.”
13. “Fashion changes, but style endures.”
14. “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.”
15. “A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion”
16. “Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
17. “Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.”
18. “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 captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night”
Coco Chanel Quotes About Elegance
19. “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
20. “Elegance is refusal.”
21. “Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.”
22. “Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
23. “Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
24. “A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.”
25. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”
26. “Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”
27. “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 Quotes on Life and Success
28. “My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”
29. “Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
30. “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
31. “Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.”
32. “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
33. “There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman”
34. “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
35. “The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.”
36. “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.”
37. “I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
38. “There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
39. “Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.”
Famous Coco Chanel Quotes
40. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
41. “It’s not houses I love, it’s the life I live in them.”
42. “A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”
43. “He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world.”
44. “Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.”
45. “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.”
46. “I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.”
47. “There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.”
48. “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.”
49. “Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”
50. “Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.”
Savage Coco Chanel Quotes
51. “Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.”
52. “Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm.”
53. “I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
54. “How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
55. “You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
56. “Passion goes, Boredom remains.”
57. “I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature”
58. “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
59. “I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
60. “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.”
61. “Women have always been the strong ones of the world.”
62. “As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
63. “Only those with no memory insist on their originality.”
Mind-Provoking Coco Chanel Quotes
64. “No one is young after forty, but one can be irresistible at any age”
65. “If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.”
66. “Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics”
67. “A woman’s education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.”
68. “I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.”
69. “Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.”
70. “If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep.”
71. “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.”
72. “If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack.”