Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.

A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.

No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory

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