Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

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?

I spend my time backstage at the Lanvin shows, and when I come out at the end, all I see are people's eyes.

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

I love to travel inside my head, take journeys toward the unknown, meet new people, dream.

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.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.