Coco Chanel's most famous quotes

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"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."

As well as the box-cut bouclé jackets, Breton T-shirts, pyjama styles, camellia brooches and Chanel No.5, Gabrielle Chanel left the world with a legacy of wise and witty quotes.

As well as where to wear your perfume and the difficulties of wearing a LBD, Mademoiselle Chanel imparted her thoughts on fashion versus style, work, men and destiny.

Here, we have collected a selection of our favourite quotes from fashion's Grand Dame and teamed them with some of the most beautiful images of Chanel during her lifetime.

Julia Neel

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

Portrait of Mademoiselle Chanel by Douglas Kirkland
Circa 1960
© Douglas Kirkland / Corbis

"Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road."

Gabrielle Chanel with short hair
Circa 1920
© CHANEL / All Rights Reserved

"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve."

Mademoiselle Chanel in her apartment 31 rue Cambon by Cartier-Bresson
1964
© Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos

"Fashion passes, style remains."

Gabrielle Chanel working on a model for her first collection in 1954
1954
© CHANEL / Photo D.R.

"'Where should one use perfume?' a young woman asked. 'Wherever one wants to be kissed,' I said."

Gabrielle Chanel in her suite at the Ritz hotel in Paris. Published in Harper's Bazaar in 1937, this photo was chosen for the Chanel No.5 advertisement. For the first time, Chanel herself promoted her perfume
1937
Photo François Kollar © Ministère de la Culture - France

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."

Gabrielle Chanel photographed by Cecil Beaton. Her dress inspired Karl Lagerfeld, who recreated it in gold lace embroidered with multicolored sequins for the Spring/Summer 1996 Haute Couture collection
1937
© Photo Cecil Beaton

"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."

Portrait of Mademoiselle Chanel by Horst
1937
© Condé Nast / Corbis

"I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny."

Gabrielle Chanel and the Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovitch, nephew of the Russian csar Nicolas II of Russia
1920
© All rights reserved

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."

Gabrielle Chanel in front of the Coromandel screens - 31 rue Cambon - Paris
1937
© Lipnitzki / Roger-Viollet

"Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult."

Mademoiselle Chanel and her famous pearl necklaces
1936
© Lipnitzki / Roger-Viollet

"Elegance is not the perogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."

Gabrielle Chanel on Roussy Sert's yatch in front of the Lido of Venice
1936
Photo V.H. Grandpierre © All rights reserved / Courtesy of Vogue Paris

"A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future."

Gabrielle Chanel at her house "La Pausa" in the French riviera
1930
© CHANEL - Collection Denise Tual

"If a man speaks badly about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman."

"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."

"Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape."

"Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!"

"One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence."

"Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck."

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."

"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."

from vogue uk

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Coco Chanel's most famous quotes

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

"Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road."

"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve."

"Fashion passes, style remains."

"'Where should one use perfume?' a young woman asked. 'Wherever one wants to be kissed,' I said."

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."

"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."

"I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny."

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."

"Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult."

"Elegance is not the perogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."

"A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future."

"If a man speaks badly about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman."

"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."

"Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape."

"Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!"

"One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence."

"Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck."

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."

"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."

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