Cool Quotes

'I think the cultural impact that this West-Coast high-school movie had on viewers my age was huge. People underestimate the power of films like this, but sometimes the more light-hearted and simple things are in life, the better.'

'There's not much personality in it any more. You can't say, 'That's a Helmut Newton picture,' because you don't know who took the picture. 'Who did the retouching?' is the question you ask. It makes mediocrity look good.'

'When you say ‘commercial,’ it shouldn’t be an insult, like something is not beautiful... The crisis obliges [us] to really focus also on what really makes sense.'

'I'm fighting. Don't tell anyone, because I'm not allowed to do this, but we absolutely are going to have a show in mid-July, during Fashion Week — and it won't be a funeral: it'll be a fightback!'

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'Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes. What I cannot stomach, because it evokes the war to me, is when you can see a woman's kneecap protruding in its entirety, skinny elbows, or a woman's chest bones.'

SNAP!

'I just decided to make a company built around creation, and with creation as my sword, I could fight the battles I wanted to fight.'

'I think now, all the girls look very ugly.

'Well what do you make of Hubert de Givenchy? He was only ever any good at ripping off [Cristobal] Balenciaga.'

'Florals are for middle-aged women with weight problems.'

Come to think of it, when was the last time you saw Chanel do florals? I'm thinking never.

'Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection. As a child, I never played with anything like toys. I wanted to be a grown-up.'

'[Heidi Klum] is more bling bling and glamorous than current fashion. It may be ‘Victoria’s Secret’, but it is not my secret. The people in Europe – apart from in Germany – don’t know who she is. In Germany she is very current, but as a mannequin rather than a model. I have never photographed her or had her in one of my shows.'