Designer Quotes

I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?

There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Anna Wintour hadn't been to any of McQueen's shows, and McQueen didn't like it. McQueen said American Vogue could borrow the dress only if they flew it to New York and back, in its own seat, with an escort. It was a fuck-you and they took it, and the dress was shot by Richard Avedon. "Fashion people haven't got any brains," McQueen said.

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

Graceful beauty is a modest appearance.

There is no better designer than nature.

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

Normal is not a part of my vocabulary. I am an artist after all.

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn't wait for no man, and that's why we choose to conceive things from the heart.