What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.

In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

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.

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.

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

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