Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

I love to see what they [Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton] wear but I am not interested. It’s not natural. If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

When I started at [Nina] Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.

I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.