You have to be very brave and very entrepreneurial - you have to dare to create your own brand.

All the shows are immediately on the Internet, on Instagram, on Twitter, it's huge. Everything is live now, and for fashion, it's very important. It's not that it's good or bad, it's just like that and it's not going to change so we have to adapt to it.

You have to prove your success in order to grow.

Competition, of course there's always competition, and I like competition.

Clients are becoming more and more savvy. They know what's happening in the brands; they know the new products that are coming out.

I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because its part of my journey.

When you face a creative change at the house, you have to start a dialogue, and talk with the designer about how he envisions the brand to make sure that you're on the same page. It's the way the designers talk about the brand, and what they see, and their emotions, how they perceive the house.