Coco Chanel Quotes
Coco Chanel was a French fashion designer who redefined how women dressed in the twentieth century. Her words are sharp, practical, and self-assured -- as much about attitude and independence as about style.
These quotes suit fashion blog posts, social media captions, vision boards, or personal branding presentations. Browse through and find one that fits your own sense of style.
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“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
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“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
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“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
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“Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”
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“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”
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“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
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“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
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“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
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“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.”
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“My friends, there are no friends.”
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“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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“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.”
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“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
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“Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.”
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“A woman has the age she deserves.”
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“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
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“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
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“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
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“It is always better to be slightly underdressed.”
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“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
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“I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.”
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“I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.”
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“A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
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“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. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.”
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“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”
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“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
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“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”
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“There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!”
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“I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.”
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“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”
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“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
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“Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.”
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“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
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“Elegance is refusal.”
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“Great loves too must be endured.”
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“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.”
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“As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.”
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“Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.”
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“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”