Coco Chanel Fashion Quotes

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

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.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

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.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

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 captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

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

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white.

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.

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

The Chanel aesthetic is like the force in Star Wars, surrounding, penetrating, and binding together the universe of fashion, now and forever.

Jabba the Hutt—the fashionista. Jabba the Hutt—the Coco Chanel of intergalactic style. Trendsetter, fashion maven, leader of women’s looks in his world, on his planet and the next.

Today, Chanel sells nothing other than its griffe; the griffe is an absolute symbol for 'fashion' which, having become historical, is now able to sell this history better than it could sell fashion. Chanel's lasting success proves that fashion has become self-referential: the fetish of the mere name shows how it has begun to revolve around itself. The House of Chanel produces what Coco most abhorred: a thing of the past, dead. The visible, outwardly displayed griffe has become the opposite of individualized style: instead it confirms the latent uniform collectivity, which had always defined Chanel-wear; in the end, it signifies membership of an expensive club. The Chanel woman does not want to display her own taste, she wants to belong. In order to be certain, she is laden with Chanel signs and accessories, like amulets to protect against the evil eye; on the pocket, on the belt, on the dress buttons, on the watch, on costume jewelry, proudly stand the initials of the founder of the house, to which she knows she belongs.

I don't do fashion, i am fashion

The timeless marinière shirt, worn by beaucoup handsome French sailors, Coco Chanel, Audrey Hepburn and James Dean, has earned its place in the fashion hall of fame.

Fashion, like opportunity, is something that has to be grabbed by the hair.

As early as 1915, Harper’s Bazaar declared, “The woman who hasn’t at least one Chanel is hopelessly out of fashion … This season the name of Chanel is on the lips of every buyer.

Everyone else got to wear their regular outfits from the first movie. I had to wear my outfit that Jabba picked out for me. Jabba the Hutt—the fashionista. Jabba the Hutt—the Coco Chanel of intergalactic style. Trendsetter, fashion maven, leader of women’s looks in his world, on his planet and the next. In wax, I would forever be outfitted by outlaw Jabba. In wax and out, I would forever be stone-faced.

She had never formally studied fashion or apprenticed in a couture house. Her strength lay in imagination and instinct. Coco knew what she wanted to look like, and she understood how much her vision could appeal to other women.

I am especially concerned that American fashion not be forgotten. Once, I met the head of a hot design school in the Netherlands, and she expressed nothing but contempt for American design – an attitude I find very offensive when espoused by Europeans and downright tragic when held by Americans. When I look through ‘Project Runway’ applications, I am always struck by how few American designers are cited in their influences section. Invariably, the only designers they name are Alexander McQueen, Christian Dior, and Coco Chanel – often misspelled ‘Channel.’ You only rarely see American designers listed. If you do, it’s usually Donna Karan. (I don’t understand why people don’t write Michael Kors – even just in their own political self-interest.

Coco Chanel, the founder of fashion and perfume empire Chanel, was a nazi spy during WWII with the code name of 'Westminster' due to her connections with British high society.

The core of Chanel's business model, the essence of the style that Paul Poiret dubbed "miserabilisme de luxe" or "luxurious poverty". A woman, Chanel declared, equals envy plus vanity plus chatter plus a confused mind. Fascism made expert use of the charms of well-cut clothes and eye-catching accessories. But fascism and fashion as two systems also resemble each other on a deeper level. Both play upon the struggle between two basic and contradictory impulses: the desire to confirm and the desire to be original. Both exploit the power generated when vast numbers of people imitate a given behavior.

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

Coco’s escape path gradually came into focus. It lay, she discovered, precisely in her difference, in the unique style she was creating for herself out of necessity. The boyishly simple style Coco sported looked irresistibly fresh and modern next to the floor-sweeping skirts, petticoats, and corseted bodices of her colleagues at Royallieu. In following her own contrarian instincts and tricking herself out like one of Balsan’s stable grooms, Coco set off her first fashion craze.

Chanel would come to be known for a fashion sensibility distinguished by modern, airy lightness, crisp lines, and sparse adornments, but under Boy’s guidance (and with the help of his pocketbook), she indulged a somewhat different aesthetic sense at home. The avenue Gabriel apartment reflected Coco and Boy’s love of deep, golden tones, ornate lacquered furniture, mirrors in gilt frames, floral designs, English silver, Oriental vases, white satin bedding, and sofas piled with soft, puffy cushions—all enclosed by those dark folding screens.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.” – Coco Chanel

Prince Max was only one of the emissaries Himmler dispatched across Europe to seek a separate peace deal with the United States and England. At one point, Himmler even recruited fashion designer Coco Chanel, bringing her to Berlin to discuss strategy.

Fashion passes; style remains.

As it turns out, not being distracted by constant Snapchats from Steph means I’m actually getting lots of stuff done. I bet having a fight with her best mate is how Coco Chanel got started.

با دندان های از خشم به هم فشرده گفتم: (( تو خیال می کنی کار من سرگرمیه؟ )) هیچ چیز به اندازه ی تصور بی ارادگی و بی عرضگی، عصبانیت مرا بر نمی انگیخت. پ ن : منم همینطور کوکو، منم

نفسم را در سینه حبس کردم و گفتم: (( هر زنی ذاتاً منحصر به فرده. چه لزومی داره لباساش منحصر به فرد باشن، وقتی همین که لباس رو بپوشه اون رو منحصر به فرد می کنه؟ لباسای من طوری طراحی شدن که خود شما اول دیده بشین بارونس نه لباساتون.)) پ ن: این بشر واقعاً نبوغ بی نظیری پشت طراحی کارهاش داشته که اون رو از همه ی رقبای عصر خودش متمایز می کرده .

گفتم:(( آره می دونم. درست می گی.)) و با خود اندیشیدم چرا من این ترس فلج کننده ای را که او، خواهرم ژولیا و خیلی از دختران دیگر از استقلال داشتند، در خود نمی یافتم.