For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

I look for friends who make me laugh.

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.

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

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.