My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.
The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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.
Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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.
I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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.
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'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.
I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy
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.
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.
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 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.
When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
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.
A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living...
