Work for money, design for love.

Work for money, design for love.

Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

I very much like dance and dancers.

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.