In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

I’m always relaxed.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

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

cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt...

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...

I don’t eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

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...

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

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.

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

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...

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

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.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.

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

I’m an iPod person.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

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

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.

I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

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.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

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

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.