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"As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion."
"Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you."
"I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant."
"The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion."
"Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that."
"Don't use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself"
"My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans."
"I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours."
"Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea."
"Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't."
"The purpose of life is life."
"The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine."
"I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school."
"I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline."
"Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection."
"I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist."
"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."
"I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct."
"If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future."
"What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it."