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.

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.