My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy

The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.