The only people that come to my mind in the last years are Lee McQueen and John Galliano. Truly, truly . . . How do I say? Full of ideas. Full of the smell. They just had this incredible passion for what they did.

But it is hard to resist the feeling that 70th was some kind of golden age.

The only way I can cope with me and my environment is to have this kind of wall around me. I'm exhausting myself.

You get two weeks after you do a shoe where you can test whether it's good or not - if you're going to like it in 20 years. Then I know that it's going to be my shoe for a long time. That doesn't happen very often, but it happens.

There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.

When somebody wants to work and believes in something, it doesn't matter if you're well known or rich or whatever it is.

I'm going to do what I do, even more exaggerated. This is my attitude always. I don't betray myself at all.