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

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I'm German In My Mind, But From A Germany That Doesn't Exist Any More.

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

Like Poetry, Fashion Does Not State Anything. It Merely Suggests.

No, I Have Someone Who Comes To The House And Washes It, Puts In The Dry Shampoo, And Takes Care If It Because I Have No Time.

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.

The Discussion Of Fur Is Childish.

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

Forgiveness Isn’t Something I’m Preoccupied With — Turning The Other Cheek Isn’t My Trip.

Turn The Other Cheek

Beauty Is Also Submitted To The Taste Of Time.

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The French Say You Get Hungry When You’re Eating, And I Get Inspired When I’m Working. It’s My Engine.

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

I Had An Interview Once With Some German Journalist - Some Horrible, Ugly Woman. It Was In The Early Days After The Communists - Maybe A Week After - And She Wore A Yellow Sweater That Was Kind Of See-through. She Had Huge Tits And A Huge Black Bra, And She Said To Me, "it's Impolite; Remove Your Glasses." I Said, "do I Ask You To Remove Your Bra?"

I Only Wear The Latest Thing. It's My Job.

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

Chanel Is Composed Of Only A Few Elements, White Camellias, Quilted Bags And Austrian Doorman's Jackets, Pearls, Chains, Shoes With Black Toes. I Use These Elements Like Notes To Play With.

I’m Like A Rock Singer With One-night Stands On The Road. I’m Here For Two Days In New York; I Leave In The Morning Early. I Come Back For Anna Wintour’s Party At The Met, Then Again At The End Of May For A Prize I Get From The Gordon Parks Foundation.

The Elegance Is As Physical, As Moral Quality That Has Nothing Common With The Clothing. You Can See A Countrywoman More Elegant Than One So Called Elegant Woman.

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

When People Want To Be Liked For What They Did, They Should Stop.

I Like Everything To Be Washable, Myself Included.

Fashion Designers Are Dictators Of Taste.

Fashion Is Ephemeral, Dangerous And Unfair.

The Best Thing To Do Is Dive With Your Imagination ~ You Can Never Drown Yourself.

I Don't Like Sleeping With People I Really Love. I Don't Want To Sleep With Them Because Sex Cannot Last, But Affection Can Last Forever.

Sometimes The Idea Of Being Truly Iconic Has Something To Do With Not Necessarily Being Beautiful And Thus Trying Harder.

The World Is Not There To Please You. It's Up To You To Please The World.

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.

Kate Middleton Has A Nice Silhouette And She Is The Right Girl For That Boy. I Like That Kind Of Woman, I Like Romantic Beauties. On The Other Hand, Her Sister Struggles. I Don't Like The Sister's Face. She Should Only Show Her Back.

I Forget Nothing And Then, One Day, There Will Be Revenge. Innocence Isn't Exactly Everywhere. But I Will Say Innocence Also Takes You Far In Photography.

Yes, And I Can Sit Down On A White Piece Of Paper And Work Because I Don't Believe Too Much Into Inspiration, Only I'm Waiting For Inspiration, Work And Then Inspiration May Come. It's A Little Too Easy To Say That.

Clothes If They Are Not Well Cut, You Can Kill Nobody. A Building Poorly Built Can Kill People. It's A Much More Difficult Work. I Would Not Compare Myself With That.

Fortunately There Is More Wealth In The World Than There Was At The Time Of The Global Economic Crisis Of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab And Russian.

What I Love Best In Life Is New Starts.

I Sketch In A Way That People Can Nearly Do The Dresses Without Me Coming In For A Fitting. Every Single Detail, Every Proportion, Every Cut -- Everything.

Music Gives Color To The Air Of The Moment.

Doing Collections, Doing Fashion Is Like A Non-stop Dialogue.

Yes, Some People Say To Me You're Too Skinny, But Never A Skinny Person Says That To Me, Only People Who Could Lose A Few Pounds Say That.

Fashion Is Neither Moral Or Immoral, But It Is For Rebuilding The Morale.

I Like The Discipline Of Well-cut, Impeccable Clothes. I Think It's A Very Healthy Discipline.

I Live My Memoirs, I Don’t Have To Write Them Down.

It Would Have Been Difficult To Have An Ugly Daughter.

Fur Is Not Murder, But It Is Quite Expensive.

Fashion Does Not Have To Prove That It Is Serious. It Is The Proof That Intelligent Frivolity Can Be Something Creative And Positive

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

The Ipod Completely Changed The Way People Approach Music.

We Need Houses As We Need Clothes, Architecture Stimulates Fashion. It’s Like Hunger And Thirst — You Need Them Both.

I'm Very Happy That I Have An Italian Version, A French Version, And Then I Have My Own Company, But I'm Not Obsessed By My Name. Some People Are, "oh, My Name," But I Couldn't Care Less About My Name. What I Like Is The Job. The Ego Trip Of That Comes Later.

Sometimes It's Easy To Have Ideas, But Somebody Has To Find A Way To Do It. Often Those Responsible For Finding A Way Don't Have The Idea.

At My Age, I Don’t Need To Be A Sexy Bundle Of Muscles, Thank You Very Much.

When People Talk About The Good Old Days, I Say To People, 'it's Not The Days That Are Old, It's You That's Old.' I Hate The Good Old Days. What Is Important Is That Today Is Good.

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

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

I Like The Present And Tomorrow

Life Is Not A Beauty Contest, Some [ugly People] Are Great. What I Hate Is Nasty, Ugly People... The Worst Is Ugly, Short Men. Women Can Be Short, But For Men It Is Impossible. It Is Something That They Will Not Forgive In Life... They Are Mean And They Want To Kill You.

Extreme Luxury Isn't The Most Bling-bling, It's Extreme Refinement, Which Is Couture At Its Finest.

Who Buys French Cars? Not Me.

We Live In The World Of Images, But We Also Live In The World Of The Internet, Of Zapping And Where People Move. You Can Make Little Videos On Your Phone. I Love Very Composed Images, But The Idea Of Moving Pictures With A Story, With A Plot Is Quite Interesting, Too.

I Am Not A Second Option Person. It Is That Or Nothing. If It Is Not The Way I See It I Prefer Not To See It.

If I Were Pretentious I Would Say That I'm Not An Average Person. But Really, I Know How That Is.

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."

The Only Love That I Really Believe In Is A Mother’s Love For Her Children.

Nothing Scares Me More Than People With Some Doll Collection.

Personality Begins Where Comparison Ends.

I Never Smoked. I Never Drank And I Never Took Drugs. The Funny Thing Is, Nothing Is More Boring, People Like This. For Me, It's Ok. But Most Of My Friends, At Least They Smoke And Drink.

I Don't Speak Spanish, I Speak A Little Of Italian But No Spanish.

Adele Is Another Problem. I Never Said That She Was Fat. I Said That She Was A Little Roundish; A Little Roundish Is Not Fat. But For Such A Beautiful Girl... After That She Lost Eight Kilos [17.6 Pounds] So I Think The Message Was Not That Bad.

Some Models Who Aren't The Most Beautiful End Up Becoming The Greatest Of All Time.

My Hair Is Not Really White; It's Kind Of Grayish, And I Don't Like The Color. So I Make It Totally White With Klorane Dry Shampoo. That Is The Best Thing To Do Because My Hair Is Always Clean.

The Most Important Piece In The House Is The Garbage Can.

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.

T-shirts For Ten Dollars Are Even More Fashion Today Than Expensive Fashion.

Youthfulness Is About How You Live Not When You Were Born.

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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.

We Built Everything - Toilets Included. I Think Those Islands In The Middle Of Nowhere Are Quite Poetic. It's Kind Of An Oriental Atlantis.

Fantasy Is Often Better Than Reality. It's Much More Inspiring Not To Go To Places Than To Go.

Why Should I Stop Working? If I Do, I'll Die And It'll All Be Finished.

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

I Have One Instinct Stronger Than Any Other Thing In Life, And That Is The Instinct For Survival.

I Hate Leisure, Except Reading. I'm Really A Person Made To Work, If Sketching Is Considered Work.

Everything I Say Is A Joke. I Am A Joke Myself.

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

I'm Always Busy. You Know, The More I Do, The More Ideas I Have—that's The Funny Thing. The Brain Is A Muscle, And I'm A Kind Of Body Builder.

My Sisters Were Sent Away Because My Mother Thought They Were Boring. I Was Not Boring.

I Never Drink Anything Hot; I Don't Like Hot Drinks, Very Strange.

Bears Are Very Nice, As Long As You Are Nice To Them.

I Don't Know Heidi Klum. She Was Never Known In France. Claudia Schiffer Also Doesn't Know Who She Is.

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

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

A Respectable Appearance Is Sufficient To Make People More Interested In Your Soul

It's Never Too Early To Care About Fashion.

I Like Imagination -- And The Way I Think Things Could Be, Had Been, Or Should Be -- Better Than Reality.

Bling Is Over. Red Carpet Covered With Rhinestones Is Out. I Call It 'the New Modesty.'

I Like Girls To Be Wild But At The Same Time Beautifully Brought Up And Very Funny.

Dress For Yourself And The Man You Love (if There Is One). Women Dressing To Impress Other Women--forget About That. Forget About That. It's A Very Bad Way Of Thinking.

Don't Overact The Story Of Your Name. Overact The Story Of Your Work.

I Like To Do Things Quickly Because I'm Easily Bored.

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.

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

I’m Very Much Down To Earth, Just Not This Earth.

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

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.

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

I Think Everyone Should Go To Bed Like They Have A Date At The Door.

Sweatpants Are A Sign Of Defeat. You Lost Control Of Your Life So You Bought Some Sweatpants.

My Childhood Was Endless - From Eight To 18 Felt Like Hundreds Of Years.

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.

Normal People Think I'm Insane.

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

You Have To Like The Present; If Not Your Life Becomes Secondhand, If You Think It Was Better Before. Or That It Will Be Better In The Future.

Think Pink, But Don't Wear It.

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

I Have Now Exactly The Same Weight I Had When I Was 18, 20.

I Only Go To Places If I Have A Professional Reason. I'm Not A Tourist.

If You Attach No Importance To Weight Problems, If Not Being Able To Wear New, Trendy Small-sized Clothes Does Not Cause You Any Regret, This Book Is Not For You.

What I've Done, Coco Chanel Would Never Have Done. She Would Have Hated It.

People Who Do A Job That Claims To Be Creative Have To Be Alone To Recharge Their Batteries. You Can’t Live 24 Hours A Day In The Spotlight And Remain Creative. For People Like Me, Solitude Is A Victory.

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 Can Tell You All Kinds Of Moral Tales, But Fashion And Reality Are Vaguely Different.

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

In France There Are, I Think, Less Than One Per Cent Of People Who Are Too Skinny.

Fashion Is About Two Things: The Evolution And The Opposite.

The Clothes Don’t Have To Suit You; You Have To Suit The Clothes.

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.

Change Is The Healthiest Way To Survive.

Only The Minute And The Future Are Interesting In Fashion -- It Exists To Be Destroyed. If Everybody Did Everything With Respect, You'd Go Nowhere.

I Am Very Boring, But It Has Allowed Me To Survive Better Than Other People. If You Don't Drink, You Don't Smoke, And You Don't Do Drugs, And You're Not Missing It And Never Even Wanted It, And You Sleep For Seven Hours. I Tell You, Life Is Quite Pleasant.

The Brain Is A Muscle, And I'm A Kind Of Body-builder.

My Favorite Kitchen Was The Japanese And The Italian Kitchen.

One Is Never Over-dressed Or Underdressed With A Little Black Dress.

Clothes You Wear

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

Why Should I Stop Working? If I Do, I'll Die And It'll All Be Finished. 'm Lucky To Work In The Most Perfect Of Conditions. I Can Do What I Want In All Kinds Of Areas. The Expenses Are Not Expenses. I Would Be Stupid To Stop That. Work Is Making A Living Out Of Being Bored.

Only The Minute And The Future Are Interesting In Fashion.

I Never Had To Learn English, French And German Because I Was Brought Up As All Three Languages. I Had A Private French Teacher Before I Even Went To School. That Helped A Lot.

No, I Never Thought I Would Like Cats.

I Like Newspapers. Maybe The Ipad Is Very Modern And Everything, And I'm Not Against It, But I Like The Physical Contact. And The Physical Contact Of Metal And Glass Is Not As Sensuous As Paper.

I Don't Know What "normal" Means, Anyway.

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.

A Collection Is Not Just One Basic Idea. It Comes From Something That Is In The Air, Something You Suddenly Like And Put Down On Paper And Then Work Out.

People Who Say That Yesterday Was Better Than Today Are Ultimately Devaluing Their Own Existence.

I Have More Friends In New York Than Paris.

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

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

There Are So Many Third-rate People Now Who Are More Famous Than People Who Should Be Famous, But Sometimes People Who Could Or Should Be Famous Are Very Boring, Too.

When I Was A Child, My Mother Always Told Me That You Could Wake Up In The Middle Of The Night And Be Deathly Sick, So You Always Have To Be Impeccable. I Laugh About It Now, But I Think Everyone Should Go To Bed Like They Have A Date At The Door.

Fashion Is A Language That Creates Itself In Clothes To Interpret Reality.

I Always Think I'm Lazy, Maybe I Could Do Better, I Could Make More Effort And I Always Have The Feeling That There Is A Glass Wall That I Cannot Get Through. But Maybe When I Get Through, Then It's Over.

I Try Not To Be Sentimental And Obsessive About Possessions. I Love Collecting, But I Hate Owning.

To Reinvent A Newly Impeccable You In The Most Modern Of Outfits, Don't Skip On Makeup And Be Sure To Have Flawless Skin And Hair. That Will Have More Impact Than Expensive Clothes.

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

The Advantage Of Fashion Is That There Is No Racism

I Have A Guest House Because I Don't Want People In My Home.

I'm All Self-taught. I Never Had A Teacher. Even For English, And French, And German, I Hardly Went To School.

Logos And Branding Are So Important. In A Big Part Of The World, People Cannot Read French Or English--but Are Great In Remembering Signs.

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

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

The Smell Of A Freshly Printed Book Is The Best Smell In The World.

Forgiveness Is Too Easy. I Can Forget By Indifference, But Not Forgive. I Prefer Revenge.

What I Hate Is Nasty, Ugly People.

Keep The Best, Forget The Rest.

My Life Is Based On Change. What I Say Is Ok For The Next Ten Minutes, Then I Change My Mind.

I Never Touch Sugar, Cheese, Bread... I Only Like What I'm Allowed To Like. I'm Beyond Temptation. There Is No Weakness. When I See Tons Of Food In The Studio, For Us And For Everybody, For Me It's As If This Stuff Was Made Out Of Plastic. The Idea Doesn't Even Enter My Mind That A Human Being Could Put That Into Their Mouth. I'm Like The Animals In The Forest. They Don't Touch What They Cannot Eat.

Be Politically Correct, But Please Don't Bother Other People With Conversation About Being Politically Correct, Because That's The End Of Everything. You Want To Create Boredom? Be Politically Correct In Your Conversation.

We Create A Product Nobody Needs But People Want. You Spend More For What You Really Want; Some Boring Things You Need: An Ugly Old Car Can Wait, But If You Have A New Fashion Item It Cannot Wait.

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

Greece Needs To Work On A Cleaner Image. It's A Big Problem, As They Have This Reputation Of Being So Corrupt.

When Things Become Too Popular They Are Always Fading Away For Something Else.

Fashion Is The Healthiest Motivation For Losing Weight.

There's Something Boring About People Who Have To Go To An Office For A Living...

Buy Only Because Something Excites You, Not Just For The Simple Act Of Shopping.

People Can Drink With Their Eyes; I Can Eat With My Nose.

I'm Surrounded By Young And Beautiful People. I Hate Looking At Ugliness.

I Do My Job Like I Breathe.

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.

I Am A Black Diamond, Unfaceted. Black Diamonds Are Rare, Hard To Cut, And Therefore Uncommercial.

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

I Design Like I Breathe. You Don't Ask To Breathe. It Just Happens

They Are This Horrible Thing Where You Are Distorted. The Chin Is Too Big, The Head Is Too Small. No, This Is Electronic Masturbation.

I Don't Care If People I Admire Criticize Me Because Their Opinion Is Valuable To Me.

Lana Del Rey Is Not Bad At All. She Looks Very Much Like A Modern-time Singer. In Her Photos She Is Beautiful. Is She A Construct With All Her Implants? She's Not Alone With Implants.

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.

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.

Fashion Is What People Wear Not Only What You See On The Runway

I’m Trying To Think Of The Last Time I Had Onions.

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

I Never Played With Anything Like Toys. I Wanted To Be Grown-up.

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

Don't Use Expensive Clothes As A Screen For Your Personal Doubts. Be Proud Of Yourself

Fashion And Music Are The Same, Because Music Express Its Period Too.

Fashion And Music

When I Was Very Young, At The Beginning My Business Was To Work More Than The Others To Show Them Their Pointlessness.

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

There Are Nearly 30% Of Young People Who Are Too Fat. So Let's Take Care Of The Zillions Of The Too Fat Before We Talk About The Percentage That's Left.

The Couture Is What A Certain Kind Of Clientele Wears. But It's Amusing To Do Because You Do It Piece By Piece. It's Another Concept. It's Much More Work.

I'm Not A Social Person. Not That I'm Not At Ease. I'm Pretty Good, But It Bores Me. Not The People, But The Whole Thing. What For? It's Not Very Productive. I Only Want To Do What I Have To Do: Fashion, Photography, Books. And That's All.

I Don't Want To Do Anything Over Again, Ever Again. I Want Only To Do What I Haven't Done. There's No "again." There's Only The Future. I Hate The Past - Especially My Own Past.

Children Are The Last Thing I Want. I Hate All Children. For Other People, It's Fine, But Not For Me. I Was Born Not To Be A Family Person.

What I Like About Music Is The Songs You Can Remember The Lines Of In A Single Second. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones... You Can Remember Every Line To Their Songs. But Today, How Often Do You Remember Any Of The Lines To Songs? I Mean, I Know That One Of The Lily Allen's Last Albums Is Called It's Not Me, It's You. But I Don't Know How The Songs Go.

Reinvent New Combinations Of What You Already Own. Improvise. Become More Creative. Not Because You Have To, But Because You Want To. Evolution Is The Secret For The Next Step.

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