You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.

I don't even want to have things associated with my name on the internet - it's very dangerous.

Children are the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.

When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: 'You shouldn't smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

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.

The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.