I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.

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

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.

After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’

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.

My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.

The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.