I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

If you're not ready to do a non-stop dialogue with fashion, you should do another job.

What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.

I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.

You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it.

I'm not a fortune-teller.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going -- I have no post-satisfaction.