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Buy things you truly love, things that are special, but not a lot of them. It’s about value, not quantity.
I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.
I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
Channel a bohemian state of mind with an effortless dress paired with a must have embroidered moto jacket.
What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.
I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.
I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.
If you are already familiar with a brand, buying online is fast, convenient, and probably the way forward.
I didn't listen to anyone. I was so violent, so authoritarian, only listening to what I wanted and myself.
People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end.
We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.
I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.
France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.
I think women do work differently; it's important to have both men and women. They offer different things.
I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.
I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.
I work for men that I would love to meet, somebody who I could fall in love with, someone who intrigues me.
I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.
The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.
If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
A woman has no need to be perfect or even beautiful to wear my dresses. The dress will do all that for her.
When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.
We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.
You have to keep your eyes and heart open - there are always new things to discover, new problems to solve.
You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen and then I decide. That's how it works.
I'm most interested in that moment when my entire perspective changes, and I have to reconsider everything.
I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.
All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.
When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.
Fashion is instant - after six months, it disappears, and you have to start again. That's the nature of it.
If you can imagine what it's like to launch a business in the middle of a lawsuit - it's not an easy thing.
The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.
Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.
I'm going to do what I do, even more exaggerated. This is my attitude always. I don't betray myself at all.
My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August.
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.'
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
In the spring or summer, I like going to the Hamptons or Fire Island. Anywhere I can hear waves, I'm there.
I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.
The fashion world doesn't know the word stop, so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.