Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.

No one wants to see curvy women.

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

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

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

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...

You cannot be creative with people around you.

I hardly went to school.

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...

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

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 have more friends in New York than Paris.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

What I love best in life is new starts.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

My childhood was endless – from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

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

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...

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color....

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

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

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.

Some people would like me to be round again.

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes — it’s about all kinds of change

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

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it ‘the new modesty.’

I’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist any more.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

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.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

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...

My mother did not like children.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur