#designer

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

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

"Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory."

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

"We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both."

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

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

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

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

"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, solitude is a victory."

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

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

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