Coco Chanel

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”

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

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”

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

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

“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.”

“I don't do fashion, I am fashion.”

“Elegance is refusal.”

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

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

“The best things in life are free. The second-best are very, very expensive.”

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

“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”

“A woman with good shoes is never ugly.”

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”

“I imposed black; it is still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.”

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