I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.

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

I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

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