I think creating the clothes is about creating historical images - and that's about more than fashion. It is about the fashion, the photography, what you are doing in the moment. It's what we call in French rechercher, or the search for that thing. So even though fashion is not scientific, I think being a designer is somewhat like being a scientist.

I think Rihanna is very interesting. But those people, the singers especially, know how to handle themselves because they're in the limelight. That's why it has grown into something where the model has stepped back - and I don't know if it's coming forward again.

It is the job of the editors to find somebody. I'm sorry, but you have to get out there and find them.

I grew up in such a small city, I had to be popular or I'd be dead. So I had to be popular!

I'm the kind of person who, even after a shoot that I've loved, is always moving on. There is no gap.

If I were to find something that is going to be more important to me than fashion - that would be work and love - then I probably would let go. That's a possibility. But fashion is an addiction.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.