There's always some kind of hidden logic.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream.

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines