I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
-Coco Chanel
Quotations
Fashion
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
-Jean Cocteau
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
-Karl Lagerfeld
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
-Elizabeth Hawes
"Why is a Dress?"
Fashion changes, but style endures.
-Coco Chanel
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
-Margaret Oliphant
I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.
-Mary Quant
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
-Coco Chanel
