Coco Chanel: Quotes about fashion

Coco Chanel was French fashion designer. Explore interesting quotes on fashion.
Coco Chanel: 44   quotes 44   likes

“Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.”

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As quoted in Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets (1971) by Marcel Haedrich

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“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”

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As quoted in LIFE magazine (1957)

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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.”

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

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“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”

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Statement in the 1920s as quoted in Chanel (1987) by Jean Leymari

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“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”

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As quoted in Architectural Digest (September 1994), p. 30

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