Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.

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

People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'

I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.

I don't like to go beyond modernity because you think girls might be like that in five years, but in five years what I see now is going to be old; we are always going to go somewhere else. You have to bring a few novelties within what will remain.

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.