“A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.”

Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens

If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell’s boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.

During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don’t like the sister’s face. She should only show her back.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.

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

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.

Think pink, but don’t wear it.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

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

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

Horrors, I believe, should be original – the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

I’m drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends.

In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don’t really get freaked out.

[Harriet Tubman] is a legend, an icon, a soldier on the side of justice, a spiritual warrior, and a servant of God.

I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.