Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. She was the founder of the famous fashion brand, Chanel. Her extraordinary influence on haute couture was such that she was the only person in the field to be named on Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
“გაქვს დრო მუშაობისთვის,და გაქვს დრო სიყვარულისთვის.სხვა რამისთვის დრო უბრალოდ არ გრჩება.”
“Be classy. Anything but trashy.”
“Women have always been the strong ones of the world.”
“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
“A woman has the age she deserves.”
“Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity”
“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.”
“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
“He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world.”
“Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,but to make them beautifu”
“Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics”
“A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion”
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
“Capel said, "Remember that you're a woman." All too often I forgot that.”
“For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.”
“There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman”
“Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.”
“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
“Una Mujer de ser dos cosas: fabulosa y de lujo”
“A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.”
“There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.”
“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
“I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around”
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
“Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.”
“Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.”
“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.”
“Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”
“Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.”
“Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.”
“A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.”
“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.”
“I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”
“I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.”
“Only those with no memory insist on their originality.”
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
“The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
“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.”
“In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.”
“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
“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”
“Elegance is refusal.”
“I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.”
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
“Passion goes, Boredom remains.”
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”