I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

Things have to be beautifully made, even if they are full of fun, fantasy and futility

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

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.

I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.