"Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping."
— Bo Derek
"Fashion is so close in revealing a person’s inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It’s really too close to the quick of the soul."
— Stella Blum
"Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony."
— Coco Chanel
"Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds."
— Coco Chanel
"I’m thinking balls are to men, what purses are to women. It’s just a little bag but we’d feel naked in public without it."
— Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw (“Sex And The City”)
"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."
— Coco Chanel
"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."
— Coco Chanel
"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."
— Coco Chanel
"While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence — which, I believe, does make the woman."
— Mary Kay Ashe