"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."

Picture: Coco in 1931

"I don't do fashion, I AM fashion."

Picture: Coco in 1934

""Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."

Picture: A model wearing a Chanel evening dress in 1935

"It is always better to be slightly underdressed."

Picture: A model wearing a Chanel suit in the 1930s

"A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant."

Picture: Models wearing Chanel dresses in the 1950s

"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."

Picture: Coco in 1910

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

Picture: Models wearing Chanel suits in the 1950s

"There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel."

Picture: Coco in 1936

"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."

Picture: Models wearing Chanel in the 1960s

"Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress."

Picture: Actress Gloria Swanson wears a Chanel gown in 1931

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

Picture: Coco dressing a model in the 1960s

"The grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous."

Picture: A model wearing Chanel in the 1960s

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

Picture: Coco in 1936

"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants."

Picture: A model wearing Chanel in the 1960s

"Fashion is 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."

Picture: Coco in 1929

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

Picture: Coco in the 1960s

"Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!"

Picture: A model wearing Chanel in the 1960s

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."

Picture: A model in Chanel in the 1960s

"A woman has the age she deserves."

Picture: Coco in 1962

"Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful."

Picture: Coco surrounded by models in the 1960s

"To achieve great things, we must first dream."

Picture: Coco in 1937

"Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face."

Picture: Coco in the 1960s

"A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist."

Picture: Models wearing Chanel in the 1960s

"You live but once; you might as well be amusing."

Picture: Coco in 1954

"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."

Picture: A model wearing Chanel in the 1960s

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."

Picture: Coco in the 1960s

"My friends, there are no friends."

Picture: Coco with her friends in the 1960s

"Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses."

Picture: A model wearing Chanel in the 1960s

"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men."

Picture: Coco with Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, in 1924

"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."

Picture: Coco in 1969