Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes — it’s about all kinds of change
A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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.
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.
I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.
The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.
I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests
Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive
The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine
For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them
Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently
For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs
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.
One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.
You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
I’m very down to Earth, I’m just not from this Earth.
Respect is not creative … Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore — and then you get something out of her.
Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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.
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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.
Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I don’t know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.