“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

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

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