The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
If someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?
I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
I have a guest house because I don’t want people in my home.
I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.
When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.
I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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.
The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.
My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.
Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with – turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.
Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
I’m very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it’s not exactly the same thing.
There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I don’t know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
There will never be a chanel collection without black.