I find it so unattractive when women wear sneakers with their business suits. I wear a nice pair of loafers or low-heeled pumps, and that's that.

The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.

I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

We women are so judged by the way we dress, and men are not. So style is part of developing your own brand.

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.