In fact, I don’t even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.
I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.
I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
Change is the healthiest way to survive.
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
What I love best in life is new starts.
I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.
Work is making a living out of being bored.
People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.
Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability.
The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.
I think it’s very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia. All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.
Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.
With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.
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.
I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens.
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
I don’t have prejudices. I’m against taboos. But of course there are some things I’ll never touch – because as a mom, there are things one doesn’t want their children to be around.