吉米老师前言：Chanel香奈儿品牌的创始人加布里埃·香奈儿有一个传奇的人生。

优雅是懂得拒绝

6岁时母亲离世，父亲更丢下她和4个兄弟姐妹，由她的姨妈抚养成人。

1914年，Coco开设了两家时装店，时装品牌Chanel宣告正式诞生。

1954年，Coco重返法国，成为最受欢迎的设计师。1983年，香奈儿逝世。

作为一个女性传奇，她留下了25句名言，虽然你不一定要拥有她的时装或者包包，但是这些话，你一定要知道。

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 courageous 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.

你生命只有一次，还是有趣点好。

5. I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.

我不做流行，我就是流行。

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

只有那些没有记忆的人坚持自己的初心。

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 d 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 rything else around.

我支持黑色,今天依旧强大,黑人都会抹去一切。

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

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.

我不在乎你怎么看待我，反正我根本也不会考虑你。

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。

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

一个女孩应该拥有两样，她自己和她想成就的。

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

你可以华丽的三十,四十岁,无法抗拒的你的生活。

16. A woman can be over dressed but nr 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.

男人总只记得哪个女人可以使他关注与不安。

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

既然一切都记在脑海里了，我们最好就别丢掉。

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。

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，也要拥有他的所有一切。

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

当一个人决定做人而不是做事时，他要操心很多事。

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

温柔并不能解决问题，除非你是一个正在下蛋的母鸡。

23. It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

有一点点不得体才是最好的。

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. Elegance is resal.

优雅是懂得拒绝。