Quotes by Coco Chanel

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women.

Timeless Fashion is not wearing something out of style even if it’s out of season.

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

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

Fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

Better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

There are people who have money, and people who are rich.

A woman can be overdressed, but never over elegant.

To be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Creativity knows how to hide its sources.

Time is of the essence.

Don't be like the rest of them, darling.

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Elegance is refusal.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

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

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

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.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

The best things in life are free. The second-best are very expensive.