How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.

The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.

I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o’clock at night, it doesn’t matter. I think it is also important for me to make it pragmatic and practical and wearable. I always say, 'If you can’t eat it, it’s not food, and if you can’t wear it, it’s not fashion, it is something else.'

If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.