Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one! — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then,… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image