I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.

When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell.

I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.

There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.