Chanel Freed Women, And I Empowered Them.

There Are Women Who Have Completely Transformed My View Of Fashion And If I Hadn't Shown Them I Would Never Have Arrived At This Point In Fashion, You See.

I Pass For A Hypersensitive, Reclusive Neurotic, Which I May Well Be, But I Hope The Year Won't Come When My Anxieties And Fatigue Will Destroy My Love Of This Life, Of All The Things That Inspire Me--a Line Of Music, A Face In A Vermeer Portrait, A Character In An Opera, Or A Model Born In Harlem.

I Don't Like [to] Make A Woman ... An Abstract Concept Of The Fashion. I Don't Like [to] Say, "you Must Wear That." ... I Am Not A Dictator.

I Am No Longer Concerned With Sensation And Innovation, But With The Perfection Of My Style.

I'm So Secluded. Very Alone.