Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.

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

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.

Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.

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.

Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.

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