The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work. |
The girl is not selling her private life, but her image, |
The hair and the makeup are the only real wild points of it. It is orange makeup ... like fire and flames. And the hair is all back. But then there are tiny little metal things which is what keeps the hair away and explodes like flames. |
The inside is all very refined with tons of details that make it very expensive. |
There is a softer, romantic tough by some of the prints and by the colors. It's not harsh. Some is body-conscious. Some is completely fluid. |
There is a sort of melancholia which I find quite elegant after the 'bimbo years'. |
There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes. |
They suddenly opened like an explosion - it was an idea I didn't look for - it came to me, |
This is what I think is modern. It's like wearing a couture jacket with a pair of jeans. |
We started a shape and we have to continue it also in shoes, in jewelry in everything, because things have to be current. |
What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest. |
[It was certainly a story of girl meets boy at Chanel.] This story is all about what would happen if Coco Chanel met James Dean, ... Coco always borrowed from the boys. She took their jackets, and made them into uniforms for women. |