Chanel Quotes

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
― Coco Chanel

“One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.”
― CoCo Chanel

“I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Be classy. Anything but trashy.”
― Coco Chanel

“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Stuff your brain with knowledge.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“If you don't smell good, then you don't look good.”
― Katy Elizabeth

“I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel”
― Justine Picardie, Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

“Today, Chanel sells nothing other than its griffe; the griffe is an absolute symbol for 'fashion' which, having become historical, is now able to sell this history better than it could sell fashion. Chanel's lasting success proves that fashion has become self-referential: the fetish of the mere name shows how it has begun to revolve around itself. The House of Chanel produces what Coco most abhorred: a thing of the past, dead. The visible, outwardly displayed griffe has become the opposite of individualized style: instead it confirms the latent uniform collectivity, which had always defined Chanel-wear; in the end, it signifies membership of an expensive club. The Chanel woman does not want to display her own taste, she wants to belong. In order to be certain, she is laden with Chanel signs and accessories, like amulets to protect against the evil eye; on the pocket, on the belt, on the dress buttons, on the watch, on costume jewelry, proudly stand the initials of the founder of the house, to which she knows she belongs.”
― Barbara Vinken, Fashion Zeitgeist: Trends and Cycles in the Fashion System

“There is nothing worse than bringing up the 'good old days.' To me, that's the ultimate acknowledgment of failure.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinned a white silk camellia, and draped the Chantilly lace shawl. In that moment, Dana thought of fashion's most enduring icon who created this elegant and alluring style, and the happy personal life that eluded her. Mademoiselle Chanel died in 1971 at the age of eighty-eight while working on her spring collection, but her passion for work did not fill the void of marriage and children. Her success was costly, but clearly the choice of an uncompromising woman determined to achieve greatness on her own. She once said, "I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.”
― Lynn Steward

“Watching Sunday Justice in court got Kya thinking about how her family had never had a pet. Not one dog or cat. The only thing close was the female skunk- a silky, slinky, and sassy creature- who lived under the shack. Ma called her Chanel.
After a few near misses, they'd gotten to know one another, and Chanel became very polite, only flashing her armament when the kids got too rowdy. She'd come and go, sometimes within feet of whoever was coming up or down the brick 'n' boards.
Every spring she'd escort her little kits on forays into the oak woods and along the slipstreams. Them scurrying behind, running into and over one another in black-and-white confusions.
Pa, of course, was always threatening to get rid of her, but Jodie, showing maturity far beyond his father's, deadpanned, "Another one'll just move in, and I always reckoned it's better the skunk ya know than the skunk ya don't know.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinned a white silk camellia, and draped the Chantilly lace shawl. In that moment, Dana thought of fashion's most enduring icon who created this elegant and alluring style, and the happy personal life that eluded her. Mademoiselle Chanel died in 1971 at the age of eighty-eight while working on her spring collection, but her passion for work did not fill the void of marriage and children. Her success was costly, but clearly the choice of an uncompromising woman determined to achieve greatness on her own. Chanel once said, "I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird." Quote from "A very Good Life.”
― Lynn Steward, A Very Good Life

“Which would you rather have––an unlimited supply of Chanel No. 5, or freedom?”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“Chanel's Jersey had a strong note of sleep-friendly lavender, which would melt deliciously into the musk, vanilla, rose, jasmine and other slinky elements, all very soothing.”
― Maggie Alderson, The Scent of You

“No. 5 Chanel.
I returned to the floor and removed the stopper, inhaling top notes of bergamot, with a sultry middle of jasmine and orris root sliding into base notes of amber and vanilla. It was gorgeous, generous, set off by a series of synthetic, surreal scents, bright as searchlights, precise as expertly manicured fingernails tapping against a table.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“But please just don’t wear the Chanel perfume, or else I won’t be able to keep my eyes and hands off you.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish