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.

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

I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.

There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.

I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.