Coco Chanel Quotes

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

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Beauty

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

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

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Success

• 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.

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Harmony, White

• You ask if they were happy. This is not a characteristic of a European. To be contented—that’s for the cows.

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Nature gives you the face you have when you are twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But it is up to you to earn the face you have at fifty.

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Uncategorized

• A fashion for the young? That is a pleonasm: there is no fashion for the old.

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Life

• Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Life

• Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Elegance, Inside

• The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Good

• Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Remember, Women

• The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Second, Expensive

• A women who does not wear perfume has no future.

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Women, Perfume

• I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Care

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

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Uncategorized

• A woman with good shoes is never ugly.

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Woman, Desperation

• The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good on you.

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Looks, World

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

  Coco Chanel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Most, Act, Freedom

Coco Chanel (62)

Birth:	19th August, 1883
Death:	10th January, 1971
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Fashion Designer

About

Coco Chanel was born in Saumur, France. She was a French fashion designer and founder of the Chanel brand. A prolific fashion creator, Chanel's influence extended beyond couture clothing. Her design aesthetic was realized in jewelry, handbags, and fragrance. She is the only fashion designer listed on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. She achieved both success as a business woman and social prominence thanks to the connections she made through her work.

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