Words of Wisdom!

Let's have a weekend of inspiration! Here are some of my favorite quotes from the great Coco Chanel.. starting with the one that I love the most:

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”

“In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”

“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”

“Fashion changes, but style endures.”

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

“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.”

“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

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

“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”

“I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.”

“I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”

“Elegance is refusal.”

“The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”

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

“Only those with no memory insist on their originality.”

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”

“A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.”

“Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”

“Passion goes, Boredom remains.”

“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.”

“To achieve great things, we must first dream.”

“Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.”

“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”

“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”