Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. She is famous for her timeless designs, trademark suits and little black dresses. Famous Coco Chanel quotes will inspire growth in life, unlock your power and make you unstoppable.
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Best Coco Chanel Quotes
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. Coco Chanel
A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.
A woman has the age she deserves. Coco Chanel
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future. Coco Chanel
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. Coco Chanel
If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. Coco Chanel
Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed. Coco Chanel
I only drink Champagne on two occasions: when I am in love and when I am not.
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. Coco Chanel
My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.
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
The best things in life are free. The second-best things are very, very expensive.
The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive. Coco Chanel
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
It is unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure. Coco Chanel
I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.
There is no fashion for the old. Coco Chanel
A woman does not become interested until she is over 40.
I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can’t accept that it should originate there. Coco Chanel
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.
I was the one who changed, it wasn’t fashion. I was the one who was in fashion. Coco Chanel
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Fashion fades, only style remains the same. Coco Chanel
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset. Coco Chanel
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.
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
Luxury must be comfortable. Otherwise, it is not luxury.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Coco Chanel
I don’t do fashion. I am fashion.
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger Coco Chanel
The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
Great loves too must be endured. Coco Chanel
A woman can be overdressed but never over elegant.
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
It’s not the appearance, it’s the essence. It’s not the money, it’s the education. It’s not the clothes, it’s the class.
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
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.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. Coco Chanel
We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly; caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. Coco Chanel
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. Coco Chanel
Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. Coco Chanel
A woman with good shoes is never ugly.
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. Coco Chanel
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. Coco Chanel
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. Coco Chanel
In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.
The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you. Coco Chanel
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult. Coco Chanel
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
It’s not the appearance, it’s the essence. It’s not the money, it’s the education. It’s not the clothes, it’s the class. Coco Chanel
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down. Coco Chanel
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all. Coco Chanel
Fashion changes, but style endures.
Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever Coco Chanel
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
Strength is built by one’s failures, not by one’s successes. Coco Chanel
Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless. Coco Chanel
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. Coco Chanel
