No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. And I don't feel like a stranger. I have more friends in New York than Paris.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: 'You shouldn't smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.