I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

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

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.

You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that’s obscene.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.