16 quotes found
“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.”
“Im 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”
“Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently”
“Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.”
“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...”
“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 fas...”
“Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel”
“Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.”
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
“I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
“Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her”
