My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

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

If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: ‘one shouldn’t do that’ – that is bourgeois.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

I have no human feelings.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

Yes, some people say to me you’re too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

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...

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.

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

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

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

The way I talk is bizarre.

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

Respect is not creative … Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore — and then you get something out of her.

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 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.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

I love to watch times change!

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

No, I never thought I would like cats.

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...

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

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

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

I don’t do meetings.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me,...

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

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.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

My hair is not really white; it’s kind of grayish, and I don’t like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my...

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.