Be completely true to yourself and you'll be happy.

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

I like my customer to be fierce.

I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.

The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago.

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 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.