These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. I’m here for two days in New York; I leave in the morning early. I come back for Anna Wintour’s party at the Met, then again at the end of May for a prize I get from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.