Coco Chanel's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 5 votes from people: Fashion goes out of fashion. Style never does. · A woman without perfume is a woman without a future. · Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.. (Updated Dec 14, 2025.)
Fashion going out of fashion, perfume, growing wings, style: Gabrielle Chanel's most repeated lines, with the book that reports them.
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Top 11
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Fashion goes out of fashion. Style never does.
Reported by Daniel Salvatore Schiffer, Métaphysique du dandysme (2013).
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A woman without perfume is a woman without a future.
Reported by Elaine Sciolino, La Seduction (2012).
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Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Reported by Karel de la Renaudière, Zalbac Brothers (2013).
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4
It is with what cannot be learnt that one succeeds.
Reported by Sandra Cassati, Coco Chanel pour l'amour des femmes (2009).
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5
I gave women's bodies back their freedom.
Reported by Sandra Cassati (2009).
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6
If you were born without wings, do nothing to stop them from growing.
Reported by Hal Vaughan, Sleeping with the Enemy (2012).
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7
When people ask my age, I answer: after 50, it depends on the day.
Reported by Sylviane Degunst, Coco Chanel (2008).
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8
Solitude tempered my character, which is bad, bronzed my soul, which is proud, and my body, which is strong.
Reported by Maïa Mazaurette, L'art du célibat (2016).
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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Reported by Marcel Haedrich, Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets (1971).
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10
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Reported by Marcel Haedrich (1971).
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11
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
Quoted in James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations.
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