There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
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.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
As long as you know most men are like children, you know everything.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost – unloved she might as well die.
A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics
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.
In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.
Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one 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.
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
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.
Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
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.
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.
Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion
Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,but to make them beautifu
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite which I would like.
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.
Since everything is in our heads we better not lose them.
When I can no longer create anything I’ll be done for.
There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
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.
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.
I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.