We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

Sometimes the best ideas I have are in my bathtub or in my bed or in my dreams early in the morning before waking up ... I'm like a TV antennae, I catch it all and do it my way.

What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.

You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Forget about your folklore. I can take a few inspirations, but I can certainly not do an homage. That's not my trip. I'm a fashion vampire. I take what I need and I leave the rest.

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.