The Allure of Chanel Quotes

“Always keep your head, heels, and standards high.”
― Coco Chanel, The Allure of Chanel

“To thyself be true;”
― Coco Chanel, The Allure of 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." - Coco Chanel”
― Coco Chanel, The Allure of Chanel

“Everything that makes the neck longer is attractive.

Extravagance kills the personality. All the superlatives are devalued.

Beauty treatments should begin with the heart and the soul, otherwise cosmetics are pointless.

The interior of the home is the natural projection of the soul and Balzac was right to attach as much importance to it as he did to clothing.

You don't need enthusiasm in order to earn money, you need it in order to spend it. Wealth is not accumulation, it's the exact opposite, it serves to free us, it's the "I've had everything and that everything is nothing." Just as in fashion, you generally begin with something that is too beautiful in order to attain simplicity.

I have a hatred of hanging on to things. Almost all our emotional, social and moral troubles stem from the fact that we don't know how to give anything up.

Money adds to the decorative pleasures of life but it's not life.

Women conceal their defects instead of considering them as yet another asset. You have to know how to take advantage of your flaws and apply them with cunning; if you know how to make use of them, you obtain everything.

I have decided to be happy without requiring that daily dose of poison, recently invented, that we call happiness.”
― Paul Morand, The Allure of Chanel (Pushkin Collection) by Paul Morand