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I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite whic...

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Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too....

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A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

As long as you know most men are like children, you know everything.

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves ...

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I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the sho...

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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

To be irreplaceable you have to be different.

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion ...

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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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

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No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

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

When I can no longer create anything I'll be done for.

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

Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my ...

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I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, un...

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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulga...

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Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who ha...

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Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderfu...

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves ...

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Since everything is in our heads we better not lose them.

There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand p...

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If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little ...

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Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to be...

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Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

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Coco Chanel

Fashion designer

Born: 1883-08-19

Died: 1971-01-10

Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) 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.More