Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.

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.