Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Coco Chanel (French Fashion Designer)

Coco Chanel (1883–1971,) born Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, was a French couturière. Her nickname derives from ‘cocotte.’

Orphaned at an early age, Chanel worked with her sister in a milliner’s shop. By 1912, she had launched her store in Deauville, Normandy, and, with its success, in 1914, her well-known fashion house in the Rue Cambon in Paris.

Chanel transformed women’s fashion. Her sophisticated but straightforward clothes were a drastic departure from the stiff corseted trend of the day. She created the slim low-waisted style that dominated women’s fashion in the 1920s.

Chanel also created her collection of perfumes, costume jewelry, and textiles that bear her name.

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In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Identity

There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Money

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Ability

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.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Fashion

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel

It’s amazing how many cares disappear when you
decide not to be something, but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Character

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Girls

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.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Age

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Coco Chanel

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Fashion

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Dress, Fashion

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Men, Men & Women, Women

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Fashion, Architecture

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Luxury, One liners

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’ve never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Mankind, Man, Body

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
Topics: Absence, Luxury

A woman can be overdressed, never over-elegant.
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
Topics: Boredom

A woman has the age she deserves.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Age

There is no time for cut-and- dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Time Management, Value of Time, Passion, Time

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Wealth

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
Topics: Style

My friends, there are no friends.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Friends and Friendship

Dress shabbily, they notice the dress. Dress impeccably, they notice the woman.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Fashion

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel

It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Fashion

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Innovation

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

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Creativity

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
Coco Chanel
Topics: Life, Living Well

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