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.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

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 never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

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.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

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.

If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Some people would like me to be round again.

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 like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

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.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

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.

I can do whatever I want.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

I didn't play with other children.

I do my job like I breathe.