Quotes by Chanel, Coco

"Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck."

Chanel, Coco on dress   

"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."

Chanel, Coco on elegance   

"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."

Chanel, Coco on fashion   

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."

Chanel, Coco on fashion   

"My friends, there are no friends."

Chanel, Coco on friends and friendship   

"Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics."

Chanel, Coco on innovation   

"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men."

Chanel, Coco on women
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"There are people who have money and people who are rich."

Chanel, Coco on money
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"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone."

Chanel, Coco on love
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"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."

Chanel, Coco on style   

"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."

Chanel, Coco on body   

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

Chanel, Coco on time
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

Chanel, Coco on uniqueness
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