French Fashion Quotes

• The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

  Coco Chanel

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Believing in Ourselves" by Armand Eisen, (p. 39), 1992.

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• Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Success, Hater

  "You've Got Style : Your Personal Guide for Relating to Others‎". Book by Robert Rohm (p. 29), 2000.

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  Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Life, Fashion, Failure

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• Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women". Book by Armand Eisen (p. 15), 1992.

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• In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Confidence, Fashion

  "Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets". Book by Marcel Haedrich, 1971.

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  Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Courage, Thinking

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• Fashion changes, but style endures.

  Coco Chanel

  Change, Fashion, Life Changing

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• The difference between style and fashion is quality.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Differences, Style

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• 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

  Fashion, Life Changing, Sky

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Fashion

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Girl, Strong Women

  "The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman". Book by Karen Karbo, 2009.

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• Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Dresses, Haute Couture

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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  Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

  Kate Moss

  Fashion, Size Zero, Taste

  "Kate Moss's motto gives comfort to 'pro-anorexic' community" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2009.

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• Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Greatness, Perfection

  "Harper's Bazaar" Magazine, 1923.

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• Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Civilization, Shoes

  Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage

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• Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Fashion, Advice

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• Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Luxury, Elegance

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• Fashion is in the sky, in the street.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Sky, Dresses

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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  Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

  Coco Chanel

  Funny, Birthday, Beauty

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• Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Fashion, Style

  "Architectural Digest" Magazine, (p. 30), September 1994.

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• A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Women, Icons

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• Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

  Coco Chanel

  Men, Coquetry, Remember

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• Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

  Anthony Burgess

  Fashion, Men, Novelty

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• 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

  Fashion, Taken, Luxury

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• A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Littles

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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