Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.

There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.

I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.

When I first started to do fashion shows I didn't have the budget to hire top models so I would cast women who inspired me, and ask them to walk how they walked. I was doing a mise en scène, which for me was normal. I love for people to see my clothes, but it was more about the attitude of the girls. The revues of the late 19th century/early 20th century were very much a reflection of what was happening in society and politics, and for me that is also the role of the fashion designer.

My eccentricity became direction.