Creative Quotations from Coco Chanel (1883-1971)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Coco Chanel
(1883-1971) born on Aug 19

French fashion designer. "She revolutionized post-WW II women's fashions; created Chanel No. 5 perfume, 1924; subject of Broadway musical "Coco.""

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago, no one mentioned it."

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"quoted in Marcel Haedrich, 'Coco Chanel, Her Life, Her Secrets'"
R:	"Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets, 1972"
A:	"Quoted in: Marcel Haedrich, Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets, ch. 21 (1971)."
N:	"In "Quotable Business," ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992."
K:	"Ladies' Home Journal," Sep 56"