When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.

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.

I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.

After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’

Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today

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.