Coco Chanel

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can’t accept that it should originate there.

Coco Chanel

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

Coco Chanel

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Coco Chanel

I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.

Coco Chanel

I remember confuting one of Westminster’s favourite maxims, ‘better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.’ In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.

Coco Chanel

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because I knew how to express my own time.

Coco Chanel

I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.

Coco Chanel

I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.

Coco Chanel

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.

Coco Chanel

I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière – a real devil.

Coco Chanel