49 Quotes About Chanel

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.

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?

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

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

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

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.

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.

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