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

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.

As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.