The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.

I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

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

The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.