Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.

Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.