I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don’t fancy having so much staff now.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

I can no longer walk in the street. That’s over.

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

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.

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.

No, I never thought I would like cats.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

I don’t speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

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’m very down to Earth, I’m just not from this Earth.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!

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 don’t have any stress. I’m very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That’s what I hate most. I think it’s very demode.

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her

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 will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married – who divorce in three seconds – don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

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.

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.

I do my job like I breathe.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

Personally, I don’t wear fur.

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.

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

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’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

I’m lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

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.

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’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

I don’t do meetings.

I’m not a fortune-teller.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.