#designer

"Stuff your brain with knowledge."

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

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

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

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

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

"Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently"

"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."

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

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

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

"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?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Logos on designer clothes don't make me feel like I've got a strong personal brand. No clothes make the man. Even wearing no clothes I'm still me."

"Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability"