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

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

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

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

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.

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.

As A Child I Wanted To Be A Grown-up. I Wanted To Know Everything - Not That I Like To Talk About It. I Hate Intellectual Conversation With Intellectuals Because I Only Care About My Opinion.

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.

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.

I Prefer To Be In A Video Than To Play With It.

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

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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.

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 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.

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.

Elegance Has Nothing To Do With Fashion.

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I Never - You Know Also One Of The Things That Would Save Me For A Man My Age, It Was Not That Easy To Lose That Much Weight And Fall Down And Look Like Something Draped.

The Purpose Of Life Is Life.

Purpose Of Life

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Truth Is Only A Question Of Point Of View.

Fashion Is The Healthiest Motivation For Losing Weight.

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.

The Middle Has Not Enough Class That I Think About The Middle Class.

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The Ipod Completely Changed The Way People Approach Music.

The Minute You Think That The Past Was Better, Your Present Is Second Hand, And Yourself Becomes Vintage - It’s Okay For Clothes Not That Great For People

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

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 Am Like A Tv Antenna. I Catch Everything That Is In The Air, And Then I Do It My Way.

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

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

You Have To Be Impeccable - I Was Always Told As A Child By My Mother That You Always Have To Be Impeccable, Even When You Go To Bed.

The Way I Talk Is Bizarre.

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

Evolution Is The Secret For The Next Step.

Clear Thinking At The Wrong Moment Can Stifle Creativity.

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I Make Such Big Efforts To Forget Things And I Can't Tell The Story Of My Life Because, Thank God, I'm Still Living It.

The Motivation Is Doing For Doing, Not [for] Having Done.

Buy Clothes The Size You Want To Wear.

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

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Don't Use Your Film For Ugly Purpose.

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Virgos Are Very Faithful. I'm A Faithful Friend. I'm A Faithful Lover.

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

Fashion And Music

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

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Only The Minute And The Future Are Interesting In Fashion.

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Nothing Makes You Look Older Than Attempting To Look Young.

There Are Not Too Many People With An Opinion I Care For.

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

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

The Advantage Of Fashion Is That There Is No Racism

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

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

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

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Work Is Making A Living Out Of Being Bored.

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I Like The Idea Of Craziness With Discipline.

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

The Ipod Is Genius. I Have 300.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

What I Like About Music Is The Songs You Can Remember The Lines Of In A Single Second.

Fur Is Not Murder, But It Is Quite Expensive.

Of Course There Are Some Evening Dresses That You Cannot Wear In Daylight Because It Would Be Ridiculous, But There Is A Kind Of Dressy Touch For Daywear, Too, ... And Everything, It's Easy. There's No Barrier Between Dressy, Day And Sports. It's Feminine 24 Hours A Day.

The Reason American Cars Don't Sell Anymore Is That They Have Forgotten How To Design The American Dream. What Does It Matter If You Buy A Car Today Or Six Months From Now, Because Cars Are Not Beautiful. That's Why The American Auto Industry Is In Trouble: No Design, No Desire.

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

I Don't Want To Look Sloppy, Because Then I Feel Sloppy

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

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I Also Do Political Cartoons, But A Lot Of Them Must Stay, As They Say, Under The Coat. But They Are Very Fun To Do, And In France, We Have A Good Subject At The Moment.

I Think It's Very Important What Young People See In Pictures Or On Tv Or In Magazines. Drugs, Violence, Anorexia. All Of The Things That I Absolutely Do Not Reference In My Photos.

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

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

Normally, I Don't Recommend Me For Wedding Dresses – They All Get A Divorce.

I'm A Working-class Person, Working With Class.

Things Have To Be Beautifully Made, Even If They Are Full Of Fun, Fantasy And Futility

No. I Mean Those People Really Did Something For Designers I Don't Think Department Stores Can, Could Or Should Do Still Today. Today The World Is Different So You Have To Make It Differently. There's Tv. There's A Lot Of Things.

Luxury Is The Ease Of A T-shirt In A Very Expensive Dress.

Success Nullifies. You Then Have To Do It Again, Preferably Differently.

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.

Trendy Is The Last Stage Before Tacky.

Clothes You Wear

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

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

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

I Don't Even Want To Have Things Associated With My Name On The Internet - It's Very Dangerous.

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

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

Think Pink, But Don't Wear It.

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.

I Eat Fish, Three Times A Week Meat, And If Not Yogurt, Something Like This And It Rarely Continues.

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

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 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.

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 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?"

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

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

Absurdity And Anti—absurdity Are The Two Poles Of Creative Energy.

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

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.

I Lost 200lb To Wear Suits By Hedi Slimane

That's Why I Sleep Alone. My Hair Is Curly, And That's Why I Have My Ponytail. I Look Like A Madman, Like Something Out Of A Horror Movie.

I Had Nearly Finished School Because I Was Making Effort Not That Bad On That. But There Was A Law In Germany After The War. You Could Not Make Your Final Examination Before 18, So Lots Of People Who Were Late Because Of The Way Had To Do It First.

Guilty Feelings About Clothes Are Totally Unnecessary. A Lot Of People Earn Their Living By Making Clothes, So You Should Never Feel Bad.

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

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

I Can Hardly Eat Meat Because It Has To Look Like Something What It Was Not When It Was Alive.

There Is No Marriage, Yet, For Human Beings And Animals. I Never Thought That I Would Fall In Love Like This With A Cat.

Falling In Love

No, And I Never, Ever Eat In Between The Meals. I Control It Well Enough And With No Pills, And I Sleep Seven Hours A Night. I Go To Bed. I Fall Asleep, And I Wake Up Seven Hours Later, And This Is The Most Important.

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

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

I Am Not A Fashion Victim. Fashion Is My Victim.

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

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.

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.

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

People Want To Know Everything, And So They Put You In The Limelight. Sometimes, I Am Not Down To Earth, And I Think I Am Flying Away From The Outer Realms Of Reality.

I Sleep Seven Hours. If I Go To Bed At Two, I Wake Up At Nine. If I Go To Bed At Midnight, I Wake Up At Seven. I Don't Wake Up Before - The House Can Fall Apart, But I Sleep For Seven Hours.

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

What Is The Worst Is A Fashion Designer Who Talks All The Time Of His Or Her Creativity, What They Are, How They Evolved. Just Do It And Shut Up.

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.

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.

I'm Not An Employee Who Goes To The Office Every Morning At The Same Time. Then, Vacations Are Needed.

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.

I Like To Reinvent Myself — It’s Part Of My Job.

I Don't Understand The Change Of Hair...frankly, The Fringe Was A Bad Idea. It's Not Good.

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.

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

I Think That It's A Crime To Say You Are Bored When Time Is So Precious And There Are So Many Things To Do In Life: Read, Learn, Watch.

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

What I Like About Photographs Is That They Capture A Moment That’s Gone Forever, Impossible To Reproduce.

It's Only I Have Seen Enough Of It And The Funny Thing Is Now, I Know That I'm Skinny, Because I Know There Are Even Smaller Clothes In The Store. I Think I'm Big, When I Was Big, I Never Thought About 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.

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

With Expensive Fashion, The Inside Should Be As Perfect As The Outside.

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

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

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