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

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

— Coco Chanel

Fashion changes, but style endures.

— Coco Chanel

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

— Coco Chanel

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

— Coco Chanel

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

— Coco Chanel

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

— Coco Chanel

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.

— Coco Chanel

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

— Coco Chanel

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

— Coco Chanel