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I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.

Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.

Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.

I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.

You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.

I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

I love the free spirit in London.

Fashion is a completely international business.

Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.

I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.

The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.

Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.

I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.

I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.

People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.

The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.

Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.

I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.

When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.

I'm always independent. No boss.

People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.

I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.

I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.

I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

I am Parisian. I don't love the French.

I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.

I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?

My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'

The less you have, the more you enjoy.

I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.

There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.

I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.

Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.

I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.

I never think I have to prove something.

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.

I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.

It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.

If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.

I have a couture body.

I think beauty can be everywhere.

I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.

You can be covered and be very sexy. It's not what you show; it's what you have in mind, the way you cross your legs, the way you talk to people.

I'm not bad-looking, but I'm not a beauty, either.

I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.

I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?

I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.

To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.

When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.

I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.

One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they left before they tried to steal something. So the police come to my apartment, and they say, 'Oh my God, did they steal everything?' I was like, 'No, it was like that!'

I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

When you have the baby, there is no BlackBerry, no computer; you just have the baby on your stomach, and your heart is beating the same time as the baby's. It's very nice.

People think I only wear new clothes, that I'm very trendy, but I like classic things on me, to mix with a trendy pair of shoes.

I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.

Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.

Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.

You can be beautiful with big breasts; you can be beautiful in your 40s. If you don't have perfect ankles, still you can move your legs in a certain way and look very sexy.

When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.

My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.

I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.

When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.

I am not mean at all; I am not tough at all.

When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

It's interesting to know how much you are worth.

Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.

London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.

When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.

Fashion is one big family.

My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.

Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.

Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'

The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.

I like to provoke. I'm very French.

If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.

'Vogue' is a very beautiful magazine, an institution, and I learned so much working there.

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

I'm not the girl next door.

For me, fashion is not about reality.

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