I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.

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.

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

I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.

Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?

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