Chanel’s legend has cut contours into my own styling theory. Below are three lines which consistently run through my fashion philosophy:
1. “Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
Fashion should be built around the beauty of a woman’s body. In a day when women were padded, corseted, and confined, CC designed her dresses to showcase rather than alter.
2. “Elegance is refusal.”
Shake your lovely head at: garish accessorization, trends ill suited to your essence, chintzy extravagance, ostentatious consumption. Discriminate and radiate, the truly stylish lady knows when to say “no thankyou.”
3. “A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”
Embrace today. Expect the day to be worthy of small touches of prettiness. Gift beauty to yourself and those around you. If you don’t hold now, you’ll never own tomorrow.
