I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Meet people from other cultures, so you understand that the world doesn't swirl around you.

I don't give away my shoes to celebrities for free. I'm only happy when people like what I do and make the effort to buy them. I would not be happy to see people in my shoes if I knew that they had to be paid to do it, that they had to be pushed.

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

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.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.