Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Coco ChanelRead
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
Interpretation
Coco Chanel emphasizes the importance of comfort in women's clothing to enhance their natural beauty.
Coco Chanel's quote reflects her revolutionary perspective on women's fashion, suggesting that true elegance and beauty come from clothing that allows freedom of movement and accentuates the woman's form. She believes that when a woman feels comfortable in her attire, she embodies a sense of confidence and proximity to her natural self, making her appear effortlessly beautiful.
In practice
Using this quote in a fashion design presentation to emphasize comfort in clothing.
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
I want my clothes, my stores, everything I design to have that feeling of being natural and easy. And that takes effort, but you try not to have it show.
On a hanger, no dress is sexy. It's just fabric on a hanger.
The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.
Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.
Buy clothes the size you want to wear.
There are mothers who sew for six months to make a fashion collection - someone's grandmother, someone's sister. We come in and get paid to walk for 10 minutes at the end. Whenever I think about that, I realise it's not about me. I was just the one chosen to represent those women and sell the clothes.
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