Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.
I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
I like imagination – and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be – better than reality.
Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes – it’s about all kinds of change.
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
The iPod is genius. I have 300.
I don’t even want to have things associated with my name on the internet – it’s very dangerous.
Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst – you need them both.
If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don’t even think about it. I’m like a machine in a way – just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.
Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.
Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That’s not my trip. I’m a fashion vampire. I take what I need and I leave the rest.
Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman’s jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.