“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
“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.”
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
“A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”
“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.”
“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
“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.”
— Coco Chanel: Aug. 19, 1883 – Jan. 10, 1971. Image: My Vintage Vogue
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