You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.

I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.

I'm usually at home and in bed by 10 o'clock. I do not want to be out at anybody's New Year's Eve party.

Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian literature is amazing. The human narrative you get out of "War and Peace" is universal.

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage - all my luggage matches.

I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.