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" You cannot have adoration without being criticized. "

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" Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris. "

" My mother was a cleaning lady all her life. "

" I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior. "

" Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about. "

" I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution. "

" My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a - I don't know the English word - like a passage. "

" The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day. "

" My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes. "

" I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno. "

" My challenge is to find a beautiful balance: to make women beautiful, to make a woman dream to wear a beautiful outfit. "

" For me, Warhol made so much sense. "

" I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity. "

" Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors. "

" What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander. "

" I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity. "

" Fashion is so mass-produced now; I hope there will come a refocus on how people see couture. And I would also hope for a new focus on the craft. "

" Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that. "

" I'd like to see fashion slow down a bit. What freaks me out about fashion today is the speed - the speed of consuming, the speed of ideas. When fashion moves so fast, it takes away something I always loved, which is the idea that fashion should be slightly elusive. Hard to grasp, hard to find. "

" In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was. "

" My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself. "

" L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy. "

" My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties. "