Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.

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.

Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.

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

With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another.