1) "You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody. I'm not talking about lots of clothes."
2) "A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste—it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against."
3) "Why don't you...Rinse your blond child's hair in dead champagne to keep it gold, as they do in France?"
4) "Where Chanel came from in France is anyone's guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both."
5) "Style—all who have it share one thing: originality."
6) "Prohibition. Insane idea. Try to keep me from taking a swallow of this tea and I'll drink the whole pot."
7) "Why Don't You...Paint a map of the world on all four walls of your boys' nursery so they won't grow up with a provincial point of view?"
8) "I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring..."
9) "There's only one thing in life, and that's the continual renewal of inspiration."
10) "Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes."
11) "Why don't you...Find one dress that you like and have it copied many times? You will be much more successful than if you try to produce the same effects each evening."
12) "I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give 'em what they never knew they wanted."
13) "Unshined shoes are the end of civilization."
14) "The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it."
15) "Why Don't You...Have your bed made in China—the most beautiful bed imaginable, the head board and spread of yellow satin embroidered in butterflies, alighting and flying, in every size and in exquisite colors?"
16) "Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola."
17) "Why don't you...Have an elk-hide trunk for the back of your car? Hermes of Paris will make this."
18) "I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity."
19) "Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world."
20) "You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived."
Lauren Alexis Fisher is the Senior Editor at Cosmopolitan, overseeing digital content across fashion, lifestyle, beauty, sex, and culture. Previously, she was the Market Editor at Harper’s BAZAAR and has written for publications including WWD, Bustle, and W Magazine. When she’s not busy taste-testing her way through every dirty martini in New York, you can follow her on Instagram for bad jokes, good outfits, and annoying vacation pics.
