Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain.

You cannot have a healthy body without drinking a great deal of water. But remember, you can't just drink a glass of water and tell a glass of water to please go straight to your skin and moisturize your complexion. Water has to be there all the time, doing what it does naturally in a healthy body.

There's design and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.

Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.

Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.