I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.

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.

Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier.

For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.

Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.

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

If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different