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.

For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

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.

Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now

I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o’clock at night, it doesn’t matter. I think it is also important for me to make it pragmatic and practical and wearable. I always say, 'If you can’t eat it, it’s not food, and if you can’t wear it, it’s not fashion, it is something else.'