A biography for Coco Chanelhasn’t been written yet.
“There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.”
“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
“Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.”
“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”
“Great loves too must be endured.”
“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
“A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
“A woman with good shoes i never ugly!”
“As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.”
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
“There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!”
“As long as you know most men are like children, you know everything.”
“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
“Elegance is refusal.”
“If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!”
“Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.”
“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.”
“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”