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

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

Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

In designing shoes for myself; I'm not thinking of a specific person or catwalk. I'm just not thinking of clothes at all. I'm always thinking of a naked woman, actually.