But overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.
Ines de La FressangeIt is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
Ines de La FressangeOne thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
Ines de La FressangeWell, that's why I really love Diego Della Valle, because he's crazy. Instead of going out to find a top business school graduate, for whom it would have taken five years to see the difference between a ballet shoe and a book, he asked me to revive the label. It's a bit like Balenciaga. Brands like Vivier are pillars - they are monuments of fashion; they are names we don't forget. But the general public doesn't necessarily know that and therefore we had to get the name re-known.
Ines de La FressangeI think the essence of fashion is lightness, frivolity, and I'm very nostalgic for the time when Bรฉrard was doing the windows, Cocteau was writing a play, Chanel did the costumes, Bรฉrard did the sets. I don't have to tell you this, because Colette was the first to have revived the Rue St.-Honorรฉ by precisely doing windows that attract people. And I really like that spontaneous spirit. And so, you're lucky to be with Colette, because it's a magic word.
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