Quote

Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

Coco Chanel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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

More quotes by Coco Chanel

Image
Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.
Coco Chanel
Image
Elegance is refusal.
Coco Chanel
Image
Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.
Coco Chanel
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
Image
There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.
Coco Chanel
Image
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
Coco Chanel
Image
Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.
Coco Chanel
Image
It's always better to be underdressed.
Coco Chanel
Image
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.
Coco Chanel
Image
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Coco Chanel
Image
Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu
Coco Chanel
Image
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.
Coco Chanel
Image
In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
Coco Chanel
Image
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
Coco Chanel
Image
Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young
Coco Chanel
Image
With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.
Coco Chanel
Image
A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.
Coco Chanel
Image
A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have
Coco Chanel
Image
If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
Coco Chanel
Image
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Coco Chanel