I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.

We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.

Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.