I admire people who destroy themselves.
— Karl Lagerfeld
I don't take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.
In my day, there were no vet video games.
I don't look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I - personally, I'm not interested in my own past. I'm only interested in today - perhaps tomorrow.
Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.
I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.
There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.
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.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.
You cannot be creative with people around you.
I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.
I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.
For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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.
I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.
Everyone wants to know and hopes I retire so they can get the jobs. But my contracts with Fendi and Chanel are lifelong.
I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.
If you're in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.
Is there a way to design a room in my house where I float around? I would quite enjoy that. It's nuts.
I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.
One day it will be over, and I don't care.
I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.
I'm always relaxed.
I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
My mother did not like children.
My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
I hardly went to school.
Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.
100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I've met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet - I just shut up and bow down.
I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.
Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
I'm a total puritan, but I found Jacques' adventures amusing. We couldn't be further apart. I am a Calvinist toward myself and totally indulgent toward others.
I'm not very gifted for hairdos. I don't like gel and all those products.
I like the language in Proust but not the context.
I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.
Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.
Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.
The way I talk is bizarre.
I'm a working-class person, working with class.
I didn't play with other children.
I have more friends in New York than Paris.
It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
