French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

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.

That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase.

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.