For me, difference is beautiful, there is not only one beauty, and in a collection I always like to show mixed directions. When you look at people or things, there are all these codes and standards that come into play around what is considered ugly or beautiful, and I've always questioned that. When you're a kid, you're not conditioned, you don't see perversity, there's a state of innocence where everything is beautiful, you see differently....I am lucky because I am doing now what I dreamt of doing as a child, and I like to think that I've retained a childlike state of mind.

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

My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television

It is beautiful to be what you are.

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

Always my collections are made of different influences.

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.