“想要无可取代，就必须时刻与众不同。”
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
摄影师 Douglas Kirkland 摄于 1960
“时尚并不只是一件衣服那么简单，时尚存在于空气中，诞生于风里。一个人可以凭直觉感知它，它就在你头顶的天空中，它就在你每天行进道路上。”
"Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road."
图片摄于 1920年
“20岁的时候，你拥有的是自然生长的容颜；30岁的时候，生活的经历使你的容颜有了个人的印记；50岁的时候，你的生命的全部都写在你的脸上。”
"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve."
摄影师 Cartier-Bresson 摄于 1964年
“潮流不息，风格永存。”
"Fashion passes, style remains."
Coco Chanel 忙于自己首个系列，1954年
“‘应该在哪里使用香水？’一个年轻女士问道。‘在你想被亲吻的地方。’我答。”
"'Where should one use perfume?' a young woman asked. 'Wherever one wants to be kissed,' I said."
Gabrielle Chanel 摄于其在巴黎 Ritz 酒店的套房，登于1937年 《Harper's Bazaar》，并第一次用其自身照片作为 Chanel No.5 香水广告。
“一个女孩必须兼具两者：优雅和美丽。”
"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."
摄影师 Cecil Beaton 摄于 1937年
“穿着破旧的裙子，人们记住的是裙子，穿着优雅的裙子，人们记住的是穿裙子的女人。”
"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."
摄影师 Horst 摄于 1937年
“没有为那些老生常谈准备的时间，时间是用来工作和恋爱的，除此之外，时间已经所剩不多。”
"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."
图片摄于 1937年
“天方夜谭很简单，但是一件小黑裙却不容易。”
"Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult."
图片摄于1936年
“优雅不是给予那些刚脱稚气之人所有的特权，而是为了那些已经掌控自己未来的人。”
"Elegance is not the perogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."
图片摄于1936年
“不用香水的女人没有未来。”
"A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future."
Gabrielle Chanel站在她位于法国riviera的房子“La Pausa”前， 1930年
“如果一个男人把所有女人都说的很糟糕，那通常意味着这个他曾经被一个女人伤害过。”
"If a man speaks badly about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman."
歌剧女歌手Marthe Davelli和Gabrielle Chanel在游艇上， 1930年
“有些人认为奢侈与贫穷是相对立的。事实并非如此。它只和粗俗相对立。”
"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."
Gabrielle Chanel站在她位于法国riviera的房子“La Pausa”前和爱犬Gigot，1930年
“时尚今已成为笑话。设计师们已经忘记了穿着衣服的女人们。而绝大多数女人打扮入时只是想获得男人的喜欢。但前提这些衣服也应能方便女人们日常的行动，比如很容易转进汽车，却没有把裙子弄烂！服装需要的是一个自然的形态。”
"Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape."
图片摄于 1928年
“我不理解为什么一个女人可以离开家却没有好好收拾下自己，即使仅仅是出于礼貌。而你永远也不可能不知道，也许某一天有一个命中注定的机会，而这个机会需要你把自己尽可能让自己变得精致和美丽。”
"I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny."
Gabrielle Chanel和Dimitri Pavlovitch大公，俄国沙皇Nicolas二世的侄子，图片摄于 1920年