When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.

I’ve always been very detail orientated, but I have gone from embellishment to nudity - from designing for a woman that likes to be dressed to designing for a woman that likes to be undressed.

I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.

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