“That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the “New York Slide”: you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.”

“My childhood love affair didn’t die, it just vanished. Women had stopped wearing hats.”

“I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.”

“It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.”

“It’s all possible and I’m living proof.”

“Even if you fall on the runway, I wouldn’t blame you. It would mean that we made a mistake in choosing you.”

“I have been to lots of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefulbut I never actually collapsedoh Lana Turner we love you get up”

“I think it’s cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I’d feel honored.”

“After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, “Oh! Life is so hard!” and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.”

“Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently”

“Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?”

“For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them”

“The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine”

“Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests”

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”