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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.

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

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

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

When You Hear Designers Complaining About The Challenge Of Their Profession, You Have To Say: Don't Get Carried Away-it's Only Dresses.

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

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

I Like Chocolate. I Don’t Eat It, But I Like The Smell Of It. People Can Drink With Their Eyes; I Can Eat With My Nose. I Would Love To Have A Perfume Based On Chocolate.

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

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.

Personality Begins Where Comparison Ends.

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.

I Like Everything To Be Washable, Myself Included.

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

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

Fashion And Music

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

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.

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

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

I Would Make Myself Head Of The Style Police And We Would Fight Fiercely Against Sloppiness.

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

There Are Less Than 1 Per Cent Of Anorexic Girls, But There More Than 30 Per Cent Of Girls In France - I Don't Know About England - That Are Much, Much Overweight. And It Is Much More Dangerous And Very Bad For The Health.

I'm Not A Marketing Person. I Don't Ask Myself Questions. I Go By Instinct.

I've Only Wanted Paper And Beautiful Colors. It Was My Dream, And It Still Is My Dream. And Books. They're All I Need, And The Rest I Can Do Without.

Tell Me, Why Do Former Young Designers Who Are Now In Their Middle 40s Have To Redo The 1960s And 70s. Why They Cannot Invent Fashion For Today?

Elegance Has Nothing To Do With Fashion.

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

Stuff Your Brain With Knowledge.

I Do My Job Like I Breathe.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Work Is Making A Living Out Of Being Bored.

Making A Living

A Sense Of Humour And A Little Lack Of Respect: That's What You Need To Make A Legend Survive.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Turn The Other Cheek

I'm Born With A Pencil In My Hand. I Did Lots Of Sketching.

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

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.

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

I Think For My Bones And My Size, I Better Stay With My 60 Kilo.

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.

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

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

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 Would Like To Be A One-man Multinational Fashion Phenomenon.

I Have More Friends In New York Than Paris.

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.

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

If There's Something Dangerous, Sauces Are Dangerous For The Body.

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

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

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

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

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

Beauty With Character Ages Better Than Perfection.

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.

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

I Don't Have Prejudices. I'm Against Taboos. But Of Course There Are Some Things I'll Never Touch - Because As A Mom, There Are Things One Doesn't Want Their Children To Be Around.

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 Hated The Company Of Other Children. I Wanted To Be A Grownup Person, To Be Taken Seriously. I Hated The Idea Of Childhood; I Thought It Was A Moment Of Endless Stupidity.

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

I Never Go Anywhere. I Do Sketches And Make Phone Calls, And People Visit. It's More Fun To Come To Paris.

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.

There Will Never Be A Chanel Collection Without Black

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.

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

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

I Have No Scene, I Go Everywhere, I Adapt.

I Hate The Word 'cheap'. People Are Cheap. Clothing Is Either Expensive Or Inexpensive.

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.

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

I'm Rather Pro-prostitution, I Admire People Who Do It. It Can't Be Much Fun. Thank Goodness For It. People Need Relief Or They Become Murderers.

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

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

Designers Must Be Both Conscious And Unconscious At The Same Time. Clear Thinking At The Wrong Moment Can Stifle Talent.

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

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

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

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

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

Change Is The Healthiest Way To Survive.

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.

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

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

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

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

The Purpose Of Life Is Life.

Purpose Of Life

Books Are A Hard-bound Drug With No Danger Of An Overdose. I Am The Happy Victim Of Books.

Beauty Is Also Submitted To The Taste Of Time, So A Beautiful Woman From The Belle Epoch Is Not Exactly The Perfect Beauty Of Today, So Beauty Is Something That Changes With Time.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Music Gives Color To The Air Of The Moment.

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

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.

What I Hate Most In Life Are People Who Are Not Really The Peach Of The Day But Who Want To Be Young And Sexy. You Can Fool Nobody. There Is A Moment When You Have To Accept That Somebody Else Is Younger And Fresher And Hotter. Life Is Not A Beauty Contest.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

People Who Can't Be Alone Have A Problem. Loneliness Is A Luxury For People Like Me.

You Cannot Be Creative With People Around You.

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.

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.

Dieting Is The Only Game Where You Win When You Lose!

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

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.

Those Social Networks, There's Something Sad About Them. Is It Because They Don't Have Enough Knowledge About Friends And People? I Don't Understand It. It's Like A Talkative Mirror Where People Talk To Themselves. And What I Hate Most In Life Is Selfies.

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'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.

Sometimes The Best Ideas I Have Are In My Bathtub Or In My Bed Or In My Dreams Early In The Morning Before Waking Up ... I'm Like A Tv Antennae, I Catch It All And Do It My Way.

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."

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.

My Only Ambition In Life . . . Is To Wear Size 28 Jeans.

I Like The Idea Of Craziness With Discipline.

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

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.

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

Don't Dress To Kill, Dress To Survive.

My Favorite Kitchen Was The Japanese And The Italian Kitchen.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I Never Fall In Love.

Falling In Love

Never Fall In Love

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

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

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

Clear Thinking At The Wrong Moment Can Stifle Creativity.

If You Throw Money Out Of The Window Throw It Out With Joy. Don’t Say: 'one Shouldn't Do That' - That Is Bourgeois.

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

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.

Beauty Is Also Submitted To The Taste Of Time.

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

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

I Lost 200lb To Wear Suits By Hedi Slimane

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

It Would Have Been Difficult To Have An Ugly Daughter.

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.

Normal People Think I'm Insane.

I Don't Like The Pippa Middleton's Face. She Should Only Show Her Back.

During The Golden Age Of Movie Stars, There Were Plenty Of Actresses Who Were Deemed Unattractive At The Start Of Their Careers, But Struggled And Finally Appeared More Beautiful And More Iconic. Sometimes That Idea Of Being Truly Iconic Has Something To Do With Not Necessarily Being Beautiful And Thus Trying Harder.

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

I Am Never Satisfied With Myself And That Is What Keeps Me Going - I Have No Post-satisfaction.

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.

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.

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

I Love Classic Beauty. It’s An Idea Of Beauty With No Standard.

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.

I Don't Like To Act Because My Life Is A Pantomime Anyway.

Vanity Is The Healthiest Thing In Life.

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

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

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.

Nothing Makes You Look Older Than Attempting To Look Young.

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

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

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

Fashion Designers Are Dictators Of Taste.

I'm Very Severe With Myself And Sometimes I Miss French Cheese, But In Your World It's Not Exactly The Same Thing.

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

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.

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 Didn't Play With Other Children.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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, I Never Thought I Would Like Cats.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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