Coco Chanel

"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."

"He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world."

"Despite the work of a dozen biographers … Chanel remains an enigma."

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

"In 1919 I woke up famous. Id never guessed it. If Id known I was famous, Id have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb."

"Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions."

"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"

"Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it."

"As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything."

"Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony."

"I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière — a real devil."

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone."