Chanel Quotes

“Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.”
― Coco Chanel

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
― Coco Chanel

“One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Stuff your brain with knowledge.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“There is nothing worse than bringing up the 'good old days.' To me, that's the ultimate acknowledgment of failure.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Watching Sunday Justice in court got Kya thinking about how her family had never had a pet. Not one dog or cat. The only thing close was the female skunk- a silky, slinky, and sassy creature- who lived under the shack. Ma called her Chanel.
After a few near misses, they'd gotten to know one another, and Chanel became very polite, only flashing her armament when the kids got too rowdy. She'd come and go, sometimes within feet of whoever was coming up or down the brick 'n' boards.
Every spring she'd escort her little kits on forays into the oak woods and along the slipstreams. Them scurrying behind, running into and over one another in black-and-white confusions.
Pa, of course, was always threatening to get rid of her, but Jodie, showing maturity far beyond his father's, deadpanned, "Another one'll just move in, and I always reckoned it's better the skunk ya know than the skunk ya don't know.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Chanel's Jersey had a strong note of sleep-friendly lavender, which would melt deliciously into the musk, vanilla, rose, jasmine and other slinky elements, all very soothing.”
― Maggie Alderson, The Scent of You

“No. 5 Chanel.
I returned to the floor and removed the stopper, inhaling top notes of bergamot, with a sultry middle of jasmine and orris root sliding into base notes of amber and vanilla. It was gorgeous, generous, set off by a series of synthetic, surreal scents, bright as searchlights, precise as expertly manicured fingernails tapping against a table.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“But please just don’t wear the Chanel perfume, or else I won’t be able to keep my eyes and hands off you.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish