Coco Chanel Quotes

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Fashion is made to become unfashionable. I design my clothes always for tomorrow. Already I would throw out nearly everything in this collection.

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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

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Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.

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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

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The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

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As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.

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Why did I return? One night at dinner Christian Dior said a woman could never be a great couturier.

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There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

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Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays.

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Fashion is like a revolution — it only enters our lives after it has gone down into the streets.

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

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I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière — a real devil.

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I like fashion to do down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.

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Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

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

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All men are children anyway and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.

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Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

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Fashion does not exist unless it goes down into the streets.

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If you were born without wings do nothing to prevent their growing.

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There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night

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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.

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I hate breasts that show. [Women] can have hips, that's all right, but in the front and the back, they should be flat like men.

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

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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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Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only; fashion is something in the air. It's the wind that blows in the new fashion; you feel it coming, you smell it... in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

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He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world

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There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time.

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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.

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