After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!

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

I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.

Elegance is refusal.

There are no ugly women, only lazy.