Parents, you know, can be terrible.

If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.

I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.