"J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing."
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
- 235
- Rank
- #288
Quote collection
Coco Chanel quotes (page 6 of 12)
235 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"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."
"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."
"Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch."
"He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right."
"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."
"As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!"
"One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence."
"I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not"
"A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking."
"Great loves too must be endured."
"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone."
"I don't do fashion, I AM fashion."
"Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand."
"Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed."
"Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous."
"A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback."
"Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics"
"All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything."