As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.

I am like a lemon. I'm pressed for more juice. When I have fun, there's still juice. I am not dried up.

Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.

I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.

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

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

I do go very fast. I think if I don't go fast it's going to be boring. That's what photographers need to do.

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

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

It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.

You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.

You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.

The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.

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.

I need a lot of black on my eyes and a little shot of vodka to be brave, because you're beautiful when you relax.

There are certain models who might not be considered beautiful. I think personality is more important than looks.

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

Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'

I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.

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

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

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

Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

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.

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.

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.

I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

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

I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It's good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.

People think I only wear new clothes, that I'm very trendy, but I like classic things on me, to mix with a trendy pair of shoes.

Working on women and working on different ages and different shapes of bodies… I love women. I love to spend more time with them.

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.

I don't have problems with my weight, I don't change weight but I think when you're gaining in age your position has to be beautiful.

Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.

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.

The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.

In fashion, it’s always better to be an interesting person than a beautiful one. Character is much more fascinating than pure good looks.

Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.

To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.

At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.

I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.

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