I never loved the world around me as it was.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

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.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

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

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.