I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

I like chocolate. I don’t eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.

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.

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.

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

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.