I Don’t Do Fashion, I’m Fashion: 25 Times Coco Chanel Gave Us Snappy Fashion Advice To Live By

by Sneha Fatehpuria · March 7, 2016

Founder of Chanel brand and one of the most bada*s fashion designers the world has known, Gabrielle Bonheur aka Coco Chanel is the woman who made it simply impossible for the world to ever forget her. The greatest ever known, she has left her irreplaceable mark with both her matchless work and bang-on take on fashion. In remembrance of the fashion diva and her killer fashion advice, here are a few Coco Chanel quotes that will capture the sass she wore as fashion…

1. Fashion step one
Word.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

2. Dare to be different
It’s no other recipe, but you. Like Oscar Wilde said, in a world full of people, be you- everyone else is already taken!

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

3. The fashion dimension
Ladies, you all agree, right? 😉

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions..

4. Coz we are what we do with time…
You must embrace what you love in the limited ticks God has given to you…

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There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

5. The true spirit of living in STYLE!
Age is just a number. no? You are as old as you think and feel!

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.

6. The most popular take on elegance
When a NO gets a ‘you go, girl’ from none other than Coco Chanel herself!

Elegance is refusal.

7. The difference in opinion that makes all the difference
Could you capture it any better?

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

8. Undressing the dressing mantra
Rules are meant to be broken, right?

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It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

9. Fashion defined
And they said a happy woman was a myth, ha!

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejuvenate women. To make women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

10. C.H.A.N.G.E
When looking to find something, you gotta know where to look…

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

11. Dressing decoded
A surefire way to either strike or be struck out!

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

12. And there’s no occasion that isn’t special anymore!
Because Coco Chanel said ‘I don’t do fashion, I’m fashion’ and we should simply take the cue…

Every day is a fashion show and the world is the runway.

13. Fashion 101
It’s an expression of who you are…

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

14. And she explains…
This should make it clear…

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Fashion in not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

15. The tip to keep in mind…
…before you trip…

Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

16. A matter of perspective
keeping pace with time or sticking to timeless- a choice!

Fashion changes but style endures.

17. Age no bar!
#LifeGoals

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

18. Because heels help…
…to hold your head high and ask the others to come up, see you in the eye and match your standards!

Keep your heels, head & standards high.

19. Ooh…
…that kinda nails it…

A woman is close to being naked when she is well dressed.

20. The best-ever fashion guide
Cram it – no questions asked!

It’s not the appearance, it’s the essence.
It’s not the money, it’s the education.
It’s not the clothes, it’s the class.