I'm always curious. Every day. As we get on in life, we must be grateful.

I remember Grace (Coddington) looking at me and said, 'Can you do something?' and I was like, 'OK, how long do you give me?' and she said 'Half an hour?', I said 'Forty-five minutes?'

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first. I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction. In another way, it's a crazy pressure. I try to stay quiet about the whole situation, because fashion itself can be crazy, and everyone wants a part of you.

Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style.

I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer.

More than anything, I'm designing for a woman of today. I want to be a witness of my time.

In French we have this word déclic. It's when you have, suddenly, a light shining and you say, "This is what I want to do."