In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.

I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.

What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.

Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.

Fashion is about having a fantasy.

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