聊到香奈儿我们就不自觉的谈到了时尚、时装、香水，她的辉煌事业与品牌经营，不过我们却很少立即联想到关于 Coco Chanel 的个人魅力。

这一次我们先暂时忘却这个大品牌表层的光芒，试着站在一个靠近的角度细细品味她隐藏的个人魅力与内涵。想必这25句 Coco Chanel 历练人生后的经典名言一定向我们昭示了某种美丽与智慧，一起来感受下吧！

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

有些人认为奢华的反面词是贫穷，但其实不是，奢华的反义词是粗俗。

2. The most courageous¹ act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

最有勇气的行为就是只想着自己。

3. In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

想要无可取代，就必须与众不同。

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

你的生命只有一次，还是有趣点好。

5. I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.

我不追逐流行，我就是流行。

6. Only those with no memory insist on their originality².

只有那些不拘泥于过去的人才能够创造未来！

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

穿得破旧，人们只记得衣服；穿得无暇，人们会记得衣服里的女人。

8. My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.

我的生活不曾取悦于我，所以我创造了自己的生活。

9. I imposed black; it is still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.

我支持黑色，因为黑色今天依旧流行，因为在黑色面前其他颜色都相形见绌。

10. As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

只要知道男人跟孩子一样，你就什么都懂了！

11. I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.

我不在乎你怎么看我，反正我根本不会考虑你。

12. Fashion changes, but style endures.

时尚会变迁，不过风格会永恒。

13. There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

没时间让你感到枯燥乏味，因为时间都拿来工作与恋爱了。

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

一个女孩应该拥有两样东西，她自己和她想成就的事业。

15. You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible³ for the rest of your life.

你可以华丽的度过三十岁，四十岁，以及剩下的那些岁月。

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

女人再怎么打扮，优雅是最重要的。

17. Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

男人总是只记得那个一直令他魂牵梦绕的女人。

18. Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

既然一切都记在脑海里了，我们就最好别再丢掉。

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.

在你二十岁时拥有一张大自然给你的脸庞，三十岁时生命与岁月会塑造你的面貌，五十岁时你会得到一张你应得的脸庞。

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

我不知道为什么女人拥有一个男人时，也想要拥有他的一切。

21. A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

不用香水的女人没有未来。

22. Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

温柔无法完成工作，除非你恰巧是一只产卵的母鸡。

23. It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

更好的装扮总是会有点不太得体。

24.The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

最适合你的颜色，才是世界上最美的颜色。

25. Elegance⁴ is refusal.

优雅是懂得拒绝。