I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.

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 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.'

Fashion is about having a fantasy.