What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.

You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.

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

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

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?"

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

The way I talk is bizarre.