Coco Chanel

Fashion Designer

Coco Chanel was a pioneering French fashion designer known for revolutionizing women's fashion with her modernist approach and the iconic Chanel No. 5 perfume.

Born
September 19, 1883
Died
January 10, 1971
Quotes
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Rank
#288

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"If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman."

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"Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends"

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"In order to be different one must be irreplaceble."

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

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"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men."

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"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it."

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"Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume."

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"The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage."

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"If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don't want to do PDA, it's not that I have something against you."

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"One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans."

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"An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right."

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"Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive."

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"I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle."

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"Before me no one would have dared dress in black"

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"I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals."

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""Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed.""

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"Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs."

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