Friday quotes - Salvador Dali

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook.At seven I wanted to be Napoleon.My ambition has been growing steadily ever since"
Salvador Dali(1904-1989)
I was as thinking of doing a fashion designer for this Friday's quotes but I always go with whatever pops into my head first.  The Actor are going back to Catalonia in the summer and I've been looking at pictures of when we were last in Cadaques

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty seven

Photography by Horst P. Horst
"It is the unseen, unfortgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure"
Coco Chanel(1883-1971)



"It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions"
Voltaire(1694-1778)


Photography by Patrick Demarchelier
"I love fashion, but I'm not obsessed with it"
Christy Turlington(b. 1969)


"You don't learn

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty six

Coco Chanel and Cecil Beaton, 1937
"A fashion that doesn't reach the streets, is not a fashion"
Coco Chanel(1883-1971)



"Indeed who is there that walks London streets, but can point out a half-dozen men riding by him splendidly, while he is on foot, courted by fashion, denying themselves nothing, and living on who knows what?"
William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863)


"Fashion is what one

Coco Chanel - The legend and the life by Justine Picardie

"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like, would have an opposite, which I would like"
Coco Chanel(1883-1971)

Yesterday afternoon I was invited along with a group of eight bloggers for some afternoon tea at Claridges, my favourite hotel, to meet the author Justine Picardie and talk about her new biography of Coco Chanel - The legend and the life.
Being rather

Coco Chanel's apartment

"An interior is the natural projection of the soul"
Coco Chanel(1883-1971)




I've long been an admirer of Coco Chanel's apartment and I love the opulent interior so I thought I must do a post about about it.
Coco Chanel bought the Eighteenth century building at 31 Rue Cambon, Paris in 1910.  There are four floors; the Chanel store is at street level, haute couture dressing rooms are on the

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part thirty nine

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress"
Lord Byron(1788-1824)




"Elegance does not consist of putting on a new dress"
Coco Chanel(1883-1971)




"Never fit a dress to the bodybut train the body to fit the dress"
Elsa Shiaparelli(1890-1973)




"Where's the man who could ease a heart,like a satin gown?"

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part thirty three

"The only real elegance comes from the mind;if you've got that, the rest comes from it"
Diana Vreeland(1903-1989)




"One may become rich, but one is born elegant"
Honoré de Balzac(1799-1850)




"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future"
Coco Chanel(1883-1971)



Portrait by Harcourt Studio