Coco Chanel 的33句引言

仔细体会设计师的话，它们是你永恒的时尚坐标。

时尚不仅仅是设计师的名字以及响亮地品牌标志，你花钱买到的不只是一个包包，一双靴子或是一瓶香水，更多的是那些融入到每一件物品中的设计师传达的思想，曾经作出的努力和付出的艰辛。创作者的观点很重要，他的所有作品风格都是沿着他的思想主线的，而思想是在一个人的人生观和普通生活中可以表达出来的。这也就不奇怪为什么有些人只单单钟情于某一个或两三个品牌，因为他们看到了在它们的每一个配饰，包包或是靴子里有它们的自己人生态度。要知道，每一件成功的艺术品中最重要的是融入思想，人生的启发。为艺术而艺术表现出的是空虚，这让我觉得恐惧。

1. A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
2. A woman has the age she deserves.
3. A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.
4. As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
5. Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
6. Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
7. Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
8. Elegance is refusal.
9. Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
10. Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
11. Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
12. 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.
13. Great loves too must be endured.
14. Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
15. How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
16. I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
17. I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
18. I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
19. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
20. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion. that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
21. Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
22. Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
23. Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
24. My friends, there are no friends.
25. Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
26. Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
27. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
28. Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.
29. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
30. There are people who have money and people who are rich.
31. There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
32. There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
33. Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.