Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. – Coco Chanel
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
Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: One must not hide that! Then someone tells you: The shoulder is on the back. Ive never seen women with shoulders on their backs. – Coco Chanel
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger. – Coco Chanel
Gentleness doesnt get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. – Coco Chanel
Dont spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. – Coco Chanel
I dont know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. – Coco Chanel
A women who doesnt wear perfume has no future. – Coco Chanel
Success is often achieved by those who dont know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. – Coco Chanel
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. – Coco Chanel
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. – Coco Chanel
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor. – Coco Chanel
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. – Coco Chanel
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything! – Coco Chanel
Great loves too must be endured. – Coco Chanel
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. – Coco Chanel
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. – Coco Chanel
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. – Coco Chanel
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
