The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.
Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.
I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder.
It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.
Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.
I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
I like everything to be washable, myself included.
I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.
The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
I only know how to play one role: me.
I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
Never use the word “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 and jeans — it’s up to you.
The purpose of life is life.
With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.
I don't know what "normal" means, anyway.
I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
I'm a working-class person, working with class.
I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
Keep the best, forget the rest.
What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.
I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens
Work is making a living out of being bored.
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
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.
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 never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
Think pink, but don't wear it.
I like the present and tomorrow
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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.
Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty
The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.
Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed.
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.
A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.
Stuff your brain with knowledge.
I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don't like the sister's face. She should only show her back.
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.
Personality begins where comparison ends.
You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.
If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
What I love best in life is new starts.
There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living...
Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women--forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking.
I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps
It’s up to you to make everyday as perfect as possible. It’s a question of will and discipline.
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. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
I had an interview once with some German journalist - some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists - maybe a week after - and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, "It's impolite; remove your glasses." I said, "Do I ask you to remove your bra?"
I don't want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven't done. There's no "again." There's only the future. I hate the past - especially my own past.
Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait.
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 don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
I am physically allergic to flip-flops
The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.
I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
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.
It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.
If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.
I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.
I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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.
Change is the healthiest way to survive.
I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
No one wants to see curvy women.
Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability
Normal people think I'm insane.
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.
I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell's boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
