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44 quotes
French fashion designer (1883–1971)
“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”
"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."
on Philosophy
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."
on Identity
"Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside."
on Wisdom
"Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed."
on Love
"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
on Nature
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
on Courage
"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite which I would like."
on Life
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
on Inspirational
"Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress."
"No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die."
"Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds."
on Art
"Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics."
"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it."
"If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing."
"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death."
on Death
"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."
"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."
"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants."
"You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life."
