Shoes are the quickest way for women to achieve instant metamorphosis.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

Women are wearing tight and sexy clothes again. It is the body-conscious mentality, and women are revealing every bulge.

Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.

I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.

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.

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.