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There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night

— Coco Chanel Statement in the 1920s as quoted in Chanel (1987)

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

Contemporary Quotations‎ (1954)

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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

Believing in Ourselves (1992)

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

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