Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

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.

Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.