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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.
"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."
The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.
I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.
Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style
I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.
Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.
Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu
When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!
I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature
Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.
There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
As extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things.
I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.
I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.
I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.
No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.
Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman
Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.
People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.
We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.
Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.
Caring about beauty, it is necessary to start with the heart and soul, otherwise no makeup will not help.
If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.
If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.
A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.
As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.
My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.
It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.
An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.
God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses