chanel品牌的創始人加布裡埃·香奈兒有一個傳奇的人生。
6歲時母親離世，父親更丟下她和4個兄弟姐妹，由她的姨媽撫養成人。
1914年，Coco開設了兩家時裝店，時裝品牌Chanel宣告正式誕生。
1954年，Coco重返法國，成為最受歡迎的設計師。1983年，香奈兒逝世。
作為一個女性傳奇，她留下了25句名言，雖然你不一定要擁有她的時裝或者包包，但是這些話，你一定要知道。
1. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity。
有些人認為奢華的反面詞是貧窮，但其實不是，奢華的反義詞是粗俗。
2. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
最有勇氣的行為就是隻想著自己。
3. In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
想要無可取代，就必須與眾不同。
4. You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
你生命只有一次，還是有趣點好。
5. I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.
我不做流行，我就是流行。
6. Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
只有那些沒有記憶的人堅持自己的初心。
7. Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
穿得破舊，人們只記得衣服；穿得無暇，人們會記得衣服裡的女人。
8. My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.
我的生活不曾取悅於我，所以我創造了自己的生活。
9. I imposed black; it is still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.
我支持黑色,今天依舊強大,黑人都會抹去一切。
10 . As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
只要知道男人跟孩子一樣，你就什麼都懂了！
11. I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.
我不在乎你怎麼看待我，反正我根本也不會考慮你。
12. Fashion changes, but style endures.
時尚會變遷，不過風格會永恆。
13. There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
沒時間讓你感到枯燥乏味，因為時間都拿來工作與戀愛。
14. A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
一個女孩應該擁有兩樣，她自己和她想成就的。
15. You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
你可以華麗的三十,四十歲,無法抗拒的你的生活。
16. A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
女人再怎麼打扮，優雅是最重要的。
17. Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.
男人總只記得哪個女人可以使他關注與不安。
18. Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
既然一切都記在腦海裡了，我們最好就別丟掉。
19. 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.
在你二十歲時擁有一張大自然給你的臉龐，三十歲時生命與歲月會塑造你的面貌，五十歲時你會得到一張你應得的臉。
20. I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
我不知道為什麼女人擁有一個男人時，也要擁有他的所有一切。
21. How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
當一個人決定做人而不是做事時，他要操心很多事。
22. Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
溫柔並不能解決問題，除非你是一個正在下蛋的母雞。
23. It is always better to be slightly underdressed.
有一點點不得體才是最好的。
24.The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
最適合你的顏色，才是世界上最美的顏色。
25. Elegance is refusal.
優雅是懂得拒絕。
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