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I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

Coco Chanel

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Coco Chanel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1883
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: January 10
Businessperson
Fashion Designer
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel
Gabrielle Chanel
Gabrielle Chasnel
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Fashion

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A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
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Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
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That's what fame is: solitude.
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No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory
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I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.
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True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
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God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses
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Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
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It's not the rooms, it's the life you live in them
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The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.
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You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.
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If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.
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