I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.

Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.

Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.

You can be beautiful with big breasts; you can be beautiful in your 40s. If you don't have perfect ankles, still you can move your legs in a certain way and look very sexy.

When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.

My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.

I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.

When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.

I am not mean at all; I am not tough at all.

When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

It's interesting to know how much you are worth.

Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.

London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.

When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.

Fashion is one big family.

My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.

Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.

Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'

The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.

I like to provoke. I'm very French.

If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.

'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

I'm not the girl next door.

I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.

When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.

I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.

Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.

'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.

I think the 'Harpers Bazaar' woman is not a fashion victim; she understands fashion but is not a victim, you know.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.

I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.

'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'

I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It's not just a trend for one month.

I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with an attitude in his clothes that is spoken immediately.

I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.

What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?

I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion.

People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.