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But If I Have A Lot Of Imagination, I Could Tell Myself Whatever I Wanted, You Know. I Handle Myself Quite Well. I'm Kind Of Fascist With Myself, You Know. There's No Discussion. There Is An Order. You Follow It.

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I Always Loved Advertising. If I Hadn't Been In Fashion, I'd Have Been In Advertising.

I Am A Sort Of Vampire, Taking The Blood Of Other People.

If I Was A Woman In Russia, I Would Be A Lesbian, As The Men Are Very Ugly. There Are A Few Handsome Ones, Like Naomi Campbell's Boyfriend, But There You See The Most Beautiful Women And The Most Horrible Men.

The Secret To Modeling Is Not Being Perfect. What One Needs Is A Face That People Can Identify In A Second. You Have To Be Given What’s Needed By Nature, And What’s Needed Is To Bring Something New.

If I Read Too Much Or Know Too Much It's Not Because I Want To Talk About It, It's Only Because It's Interesting For Me.

I Am Like A Caricature Of Myself, And I Like That. It Is Like A Mask. And For Me The Carnival Of Venice Lasts All Year Long.

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The Advantage Of Fashion Is That There Is No Racism

I Get Along With Everyone Except For Men My Age, Who Are Bourgeois Or Retired Or Boring.

I Rather Want My Things To Be Copied Than Me Copying. I Would Feel Ashamed!

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I Must Say, Some Are Not Very Beautifully Made. They’re Coffee-table Books For People Who Drink Alcohol. I Have Nothing Against Coffee-table Books As Long As They Are Well Done. They Must Not Look Like Gravestones On A Table. Sometimes They Are Too Big, They Come In Boxes And Things Like This. No, A Book Has To Be Easy To Open And You Don’t Have To Be A Bodybuilder To Lift It. I Like Books I Can Read In Bed. Those Big Tombstones Would Kill Me.

If I Were A Woman, I Would Love To Have Lots Of Kids. But For Men, I Don’t Believe In It.

If I Could Be Reincarnated As A Fashion Accessory, It Would Be A Shopping Bag.

I See Things In The Middle Of The Night. I Draw Them On Paper And I Don't Even Think About It. I'm Like A Machine In A Way - Just Made Of Some Electronic Stuff. Vaguely Digital.

What I Do Coco Would Have Hated. The Label Has An Image And It's Up To Me To Update It. I Do What She Never Did. I Had To Find My Mark. I Had To Go From What Chanel Was To What It Should Be, Could Be, What It Had Been To Something Else.

I Have No Idea Of The Future -- Never, Ever. That's What I Like About Fashion. It's Paradise Now.

In Fact, I Don't Even Know Myself. That Is The Big Secret Of The Story. That There Is No Story.

Black, Like White, Is The Best Color!

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I Hate Birthdays, .. It's More Like A New Starting Point In New York. For Me, It's An Evolution. I Don't Celebrate The Past. I Like The Present And Tomorrow.

When I Was 14, I Wanted To Smoke Because My Mother Smoked Like Mad. I Wanted To Smoke To Look Grown-up. But My Mother Said: 'you Shouldn't Smoke. Your Hands Are Not That Beautiful And That Shows When You Smoke.

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Don’t Sacrifice Yourself Too Much, Because If You Sacrifice Too Much There’s Nothing Else You Can Give And Nobody Will Care For You.

I Care More About The People Than About The Company. That's Why I Don't Want To Own It. I Don't Want To Run A Business. People Do It Better Than I Do.

For Me, Chanel Is Like Music. There Are Certain Notes And You Have To Make Another Tune With Them.

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Elegance Is A Physical Quality. If A Woman Doesn't Have It Naked, She'll Never It Clothed.

Black-and-whit E Always Looks Modern, Whatever That Word Means.

No, I'm Not A French Designer Either. I'm From Nowhere. I'm A European, Old European Is All I Am.

They're My Burka... I'm A Little Shortsighted, And People, When They're Shortsighted, They Remove Their Glasses And Then They Look Like Cute Little Dogs Who Want To Be Adopted.

Beauty With Character Ages Better Than Perfection.

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The Story With Anorexic Girls - Nobody Works With Anorexic Girls. That Has Nothing To Do With Fashion.

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Truth Is Only A Question Of Point Of View.

The Best Way To Know People Is To Work With Them.

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If You Stick To Something Doggedly, You Are Off To A Bad Start.

You Know, I Don't Ask Myself Too Much How. I Just Do It.

I Don’t Do Meetings. At Chanel, There Are No Meetings. At Chanel, We Do What We Want, Whenever We Want And It Works. And Fendi Is The Same.

People Are Very Nice To Me, Even Though I'm Known For Saying Rude Things.

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You Were Never Told That Saint-tropez Is Paradise?

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I Was Never A Feminist Because I Was Never Ugly Enough For That.

It’s Great That In Life You Do Something That You Want To Do Because You Like Doing It And You’re Not Bored. I’m Not Bored At All. I’m Even Interested In Lots Of Things, More So Today Than Before.

Think Pink, But Don't Wear It.

It's Not The Days That Are Old, It's You That's Old.

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I Am A Fashion Person, And Fashion Is Not Only About Clothes - It's About All Kinds Of Change

Chic Is A Kind Of Mayonnaise, Either It Tastes, Or It Doesn't.

I Love Dogs, But Dogs, You Have To Be In The Country With Dogs. I Cannot Walk A Dog On The Street.

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If Someone Gives Me A To-do List, I Say 'thank You, This Is Nice.' One Needs Things To Throw In The Wastebasket.

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I Want Everyone To Wear What They Want And Mix It In Their Own Way. That, To Me, Is What Is Modern.

The Thing At The Moment Is Adele. She Is A Little Too Fat, But She Has A Beautiful Face And A Divine Voice.

If You Want Respect For Your Past, It Means That You Have A Problem With Your Present And Even More With Your Future.

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I Like The Idea Of Craziness With Discipline.

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Luxury Is The Income Tax Of Vanity. But It Is So Pleasant.

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I’m Not Crazy To Discuss Fashion With Men. I Couldn’t Care Less About Their Opinion.

We Live In A Dark And Romantic And Quite Tragic World.

I Am Physically Allergic To Flip-flops

Some People Would Like Me To Be Round Again.

Vanity Is The Healthiest Thing In Life.

I Buy My Shoes A Size Too Small. I Like The Way It Feels.

I'm A Very Down-to-earth Person, But It Is My Job To Make That Earth More Pleasant.

Its All About Taste.if You Are Cheap, Nothing Helps

I Never Fall In Love.

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Never Fall In Love

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For Me, New York Is Comfortable, Not Strange. And I Don't Feel Like A Stranger. I Have More Friends In New York Than Paris.

I Am A Completely Different Person When I Am Working On Different Collections.

I Think It's Horrible That People Have To Be Told. Don't Smoke! Everybody Knows It's Bad For The Health. But They Have To Forbid It.

Forget About Your Folklore. I Can Take A Few Inspirations, But I Can Certainly Not Do An Homage. That's Not My Trip. I'm A Fashion Vampire. I Take What I Need And I Leave The Rest.

Sunglasses Are Like Eye Shadow: They Make Everything Look Younger And Pretty

When I Wake Up I Look Like A Madman, Like Something Out Of A Horror Movie! That's Why I Sleep Alone. But The Funny Thing Is That I'm Very Impeccable And Clean Before I Go To Bed. It's Just Like Right Before I'm Going Out.

Nothing Makes You Look Older Than Attempting To Look Young. You Can Fool Anyone, Apart From The Young. The Worst Are The Lip Operations. There Are People Who Have It Done And I Don't Recognise Them Afterwards. They Look Like They Flew Through The Windscreen During A Car Accident And Were Patched Up Badly Afterwards.

If You're Not Ready To Do A Non-stop Dialogue With Fashion, You Should Do Another Job.

You Cannot Fight Against It. There's A Price You Have To Pay For Fame, And People Who Don't Want To Pay That Price Can Get In Trouble. I Accepted The Idea Of Celebrity Because Of A French Expression: 'you Cannot Have The Butter And The Money For The Butter.'

I Don't Eat Bubble Gum, But I Like The Smell.

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These Are Fat Mummies Sitting With Their Bags Of Crisps In Front Of The Television, Saying That Thin Models Are Ugly. Fashion Is About Dreams And Illusions, And No One Wants To See Round Women.

It's Never Too Early To Care About Fashion.

I'm Open To Everything. When You Start To Criticize The Times You Live In, Your Time Is Over.

The Woman Is The Most Perfect Doll That I Have Dressed With Delight And Admiration.

The First Thing I Do When I Get Up, I Have Breakfast.

The Best Ideas I've Had In My Life Are Those I Saw In My Sleep, In The Early Morning.

Don’t Wear What You Question, Wear What You Think Is Right For You.

Beauty—or The Desire To Be Beautiful—is In Itself A Dangerous Motivation. Someone (i Forgot Who) Once Said, ‘does The Person Who Loves Someone For Their Beauty Really Love Them?’ So Don’t Focus On Beauty ... A Respectable Appearance Is Sufficient To Make People More Interested In Your Soul. It Is The Sum Of Our Experiences That Makes Us Interesting, And Having Been Through A Time In Your Life In Which You Were In A Bad Place (or What You Perceived As A Bad Place) Physically, Can Be Useful. It Can Even Be Necessary.

The Importance Of Logo Into Today's Fashion Is Un! Be! Lievable!

I Like To Be On Tv When Interviewers Are Good. I Like It Especially When It's Live. When They Can Cut Things, I Don't Like It As Much. Sometimes They Cut Something And Say, "well, You Would Get In Trouble, You Would Get A Lawsuit." I Tell Them, "well, I Don't Want My Lawyers To Be Unemployed."

Today Couture Has To Be Expensive, But It Shouldn’t Look Expensive.

I Like Everything To Be Washable, Myself Included.

Foreigners Don't Want To Invest Any More In France - And This Is Not Working.

You Come First, The Clothes Later. Reinvent New Combinations Of What You Already Own. Be Creative.

I'm Like A Rock Singer With One-night Stands On The Road.

I Can't Wait For The Iphone 6. It's My Only Ambition In Life To Have It Quickly.

Oh Yes, I Love To Do Shoes. I'm Not A Fetishist But I Love To Do Shoes.

I Do My Job Like I Breathe — So If I Can’t Breathe I’m In Trouble.

I Do My Job Like I Breathe.

My Job Is To Bring Out In People What They Wouldn't Dare Do Themselves.

When I Was A Child, I Never Played With Other Children. I Hated Them.

Change Is The Healthiest Way To Survive.

The Purpose Of Life Is Life.

Purpose Of Life

There's No Chanel Collection Without Black. (it) Will Never Exist. Who Can Live Without Some Black Clothes.

I Have Moved To A Smaller House In Paris, And I Don't Fancy Having So Much Staff Now.

For Every Book You Buy, You Should Buy The Time To Read It.

Fur Is Not Murder, But It Is Quite Expensive.

I Don't Like Standard Beauty - There Is No Beauty Without Strangeness.

Don't Dress To Kill, Dress To Survive.

When I Was Four, I Asked My Mother For A Valet For My Birthday.

Luxury Bags Make Your Life More Pleasant, Make You Dream, Give You Confidence, And Show Your Neighbors You Are Doing Well.

Buy What You Don’t Have Yet, Or What You Really Want, Which Can Be Mixed With What You Already Own. Buy Only Because Something Excites You, Not Just For The Simple Act Of Shopping.

You Cannot Fake Chic But You Can Be Chic And Fake Fur

I Like Today And Perhaps A Little Future Still, But The Past Is Really Something I'm Not Interested In. So, As Far As I'm Concerned, I Like Only The Past Of Things And People I Don't Know. When I Know, I Don't Care Because I Knew How It Was.

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