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 love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.

Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.

Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now

I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.

I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.