I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

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

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

The discussion of fur is childish.

I don’t do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.

You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'