I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.

Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.

One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

[I want to] refuting the whole idea that there is only one way to look; that women have to be so skinny to look good; that they have to be 12 years old and wearing clothes that only women in their 30s and 40s can afford.

I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.

I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.

My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.