Iconic designer in his own words
ON HIMSELF
I am very much down to earth. Just not this earth
ON PYJAMAS
Everybody should go to bed dressed like they have a date at the door
ON FASHION SHOWS
I'm a kind of fashion nymphomaniac who never gets an orgasm
ON INTELLECTUALS
I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion
ON HIS SUNGLASSES
They are my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted
ON VANITY
Vanity is the healthiest thing in life ON LEARNING LANGUAGES
Anyone who is not at least trilingual is a hick
ON ANDY WARHOL
I shouldn't say this, but physically he was quite repulsive
ON SHORT MEN
I have a terrible loathing of ugly short men... women can be short but for men it is impossible
ON HOMOSEXUALITY
When I asked my mother what homosexuality was, she said it was the colour of your hair, and she was right. It is nothing
ON HIS SECRET
I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people
ON THE AESTHETICALLY CHALLENGED
I hate ugly people. They are very depressing
ON CHANEL
What I do Coco would have hated.
ON CHILDREN
Having adult children makes you look 100 years old.
I don't want that
ON RUSSIAN MEN
If I was a Russian woman I would be lesbian
ON WORK ETHIC
I'm never pleased with myself.
I always think I'm lazy and that I could do better
ON THE OLDEST PROFESSION
I'm rather pro-prostitution. I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers. Frustration is the mother of crime, and so there would be much more crime without prostitutes and without porn movies