香奈儿女士的经典语录包括:
Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
时尚有两个目的:舒适和爱。当时尚成功时,美丽便随之而来。
An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.
一个优雅的女人应该能够在做自己的营销时不让家庭主妇发笑。笑的人总是对的。
Sem said to me, concerning some jewelry I designed: “at last we imitate the fake”. How right he was. It is impossible to wear lots of real jewelries unless there are women who wear lots of fake ones.
Sem曾经对我说,关于我设计的一些珠宝:“最后我们模仿假货”。他是对的。除非有女人穿很多假货,否则不可能穿很多真珠宝。
Coquetry, it’s a triumph of the spirit over the sense.
诱惑,这是精神战胜感官的胜利。
The generosity means accepting ingratitude.
慷慨意味着接受忘恩负义。
Comfort has forms. Love has colors. A skirt is made for crossing the legs and an armhole for crossing the arms.
舒适有形式,爱有颜色。裙子是为跨腿而做,袖口是为跨臂而做。
Fashion passes, style remains.
时尚会过去,但风格永存。
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
想要无可取代,就必须时刻与众不同。
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
我爱奢侈。奢侈不在于富有和华丽,而在于没有粗俗。粗俗是我们语言中最丑陋的词。我留在游戏中与之抗争。
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
创新!人不能永远创新。我想做的是制作经典。
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
最有勇气的行为就是只想着自己,并且大声说出来。
You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
你只活一次,还是过得有趣点好。
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass... It is about learning to dance in the rain.
生活不是等待暴风雨过去……而是学会在雨中跳舞。
这些语录不仅体现了香奈儿女士对时尚和生活的独特见解,也激励了无数女性追求自我和优雅。