"The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning."
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"The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning."
"I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me."
"I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction."
"There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married."
"When I was very young, at the beginning my business was to work more than the others to show them their pointlessness."
"Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive"
"For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them."
"There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes."
"The iPod completely changed the way people approach music."
"I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored."
"I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels."
"That's why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that's why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie."
"Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair."
"Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian."
"Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue."
"Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion."
"What I hate is nasty, ugly people."
"Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping."
"You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur"
"Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale."