Coco Chanel: Quotes about fashion

Coco Chanel was French fashion designer. Explore interesting quotes on fashion.

Coco Chanel: 44 quotes46 likes

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

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

“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”

As quoted in LIFE magazine (1957)

“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.”

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

“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”

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

“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”

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