Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel popularly known as “Coco Chanel” was born on August 19, 1883, in Saumur, France. Coco Chanel was a leading French modernist designer, whose patterns of simplicity and style revolutionised women’s clothing. She was a successful business woman and the founder of the Chanel brand.
Her elegant casual designs inspired women of fashion to abandon the complicated, uncomfortable clothes—such as petticoats and corsets—that were prevalent in 19th-century dress. She was the only designer to be listed in the Times 100 most influential people of the Twentieth Century.
Coco Chanel extended her influence beyond couture clothing to jewellery, handbags, and fragrance. It would be impossible to dispute the claim that Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel is the most famous designer in history.
Below, we have compiled over 60 Coco Chanel quotes about fashion, life and beauty.
Inspiring Coco Chanel Fashion & Beauty Quotes
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- “Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”― Coco Chanel
- “Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”― Coco Chanel
- “There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman”― Coco Chanel
- “Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”― Coco Chanel
- “When I find a colour darker than black, I’ll wear it. But until then, I’m wearing black!”― Coco Chanel
- “For a woman betrayal has no sense – one cannot betray one’s passions.”― Coco Chanel
- “Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.”― Coco Chanel
- “No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost – unloved she might as well die.”― Coco Chanel
- “to achieve great things, we must first dream”― Coco Chanel
- “nothing makes a woman look older than obvious expensiveness, ornateness, complication”― coco chanel
- Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.― Coco Chanel
- “I was the one who changed, it wasn’t fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.”― Coco Chanel
- Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.― Coco Chanel
- “Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm.”― Coco Chanel
- “Don’t be like the rest of them, darling.”― Coco Chanel
- “A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion”― Coco Chanel
- “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.”― Coco Chanel
- “Be classy. Anything but trashy.”― Coco Chanel
- “There are people who have money and people who are rich.”― Coco Chanel
- “Only those with no memory insist on their originality.”― Coco Chanel
- “I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being nak*ed when she is well-dressed.”― Coco Chanel
- “The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”― Coco Chanel
- “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel
- “Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!” – Coco Chanel
- “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.” – Coco Chanel
- “Fashion fades. Only style remains the same.” – Coco Chanel
- “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”― Coco Chanel
- “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”― Coco Chanel
- “I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”― Coco Chanel
- “My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”― Coco Chanel
- “Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.”― Coco Chanel
- “Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”― Coco Chanel
- “Elegance is refusal.”― Coco Chanel
- “A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”― Coco Chanel
- “There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night”― Coco Chanel
- “Women have always been the strong ones of the world.”― Coco Chanel
- “Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”― Coco Chanel
- “Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics”― Coco Chanel
- “If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep.”― Coco Chanel
- “Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”― Coco Chanel
- “Never a button without a buttonhole.”― Coco Chanel
- “If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.”― Coco Chanel
- “It is unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.”― Coco Chanel
- “Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautiful”― Coco Chanel
- “A woman’s education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.”― Coco Chanel
- “Coquetry, it’s a triumph of the spirit over the senses.”― Coco Chanel
- “Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”― Coco Chanel
- “I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around”
― Coco Chanel - “Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.”
― Coco Chanel - “Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.”― Coco Chanel
- “A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.”― Coco Chanel
- “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
― Coco Chanel - “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.”― Coco Chanel
- “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”― Coco Chanel
- “The best things in life are free. The second best are very, very expensive.” – Coco Chanel
- “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.” – Coco Chanel
- “Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.” – Coco Chanel
- “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”― Coco Chanel
- “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”― Coco Chanel
- “If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”― Coco Chanel
- “A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”― Coco Chanel
- “I don’t do fashion, I AM fashion.”― Coco Chanel
- “I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little – if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”― Coco Chanel
- “You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
― Coco Chanel - “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”― Coco Chanel
