Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
Karl Lagerfeld
I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!
Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
What I love best in life is new starts.
Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.
I'm a working-class person, working with class.
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
I never played with anything like toys.
There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
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.
I don't take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.
I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.
Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.
I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I've met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet - I just shut up and bow down.
But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.
Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
I'm a total puritan, but I found Jacques' adventures amusing. We couldn't be further apart. I am a Calvinist toward myself and totally indulgent toward others.
I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
One day it will be over, and I don't care.
I eat next to nothing.
I like the language in Proust but not the context.
Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.
If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.
Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.
I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
I have no human feelings.
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
