80 quotes found
“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
“Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.”
“No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.”
“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”
“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
“Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.”
“Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics”
“I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.”
“In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
“Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.”
“Be classy. Anything but trashy.”
“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.”
“Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”
“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.”
“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.”
“Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.”
