I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

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.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.