One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

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

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

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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Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

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.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

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

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

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.

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.

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

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.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine

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

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her

There will never be a chanel collection without black

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.