"A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive."
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"If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job."
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"The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration."
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"Normal people think I'm insane."
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"Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young."
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"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?""
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"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."
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"I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed."
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"I don't know what "normal" means, anyway."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight."
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"I like everything to be washable, myself included."
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"I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time."
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"When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them."
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"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."
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"Fashion designers are dictators of taste."
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"I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim."
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"Think pink, but don't wear it."
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"Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books."
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