Quotes about chanel

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinned a white silk camellia, and draped the Chantilly lace shawl. In that moment, Dana thought of fashion's most enduring icon who created this elegant and alluring style, and the happy personal life that eluded her. Mademoiselle Chanel died in 1971 at the age of eighty-eight while working on her spring collection, but her passion for work did not fill the void of marriage and children. Her success wa

As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinned a white silk camellia, and draped the Chantilly lace shawl. In that moment, Dana thought of fashion's most enduring icon who created this elegant and alluring style, and the happy personal life that eluded her. Mademoiselle Chanel died in 1971 at the age of eighty-eight while working on her spring collection, but her passion for work did not fill the void of marriage and children. Her success wa

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

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

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

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 in

If you don't smell good, then you don't look good.

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.

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

Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.