I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.

I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.

I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.

When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.

I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.