When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.

My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself. It also probably nourished my passion and my will to make fashion, because I've always felt that, because of having a big family to take care of, she sacrificed a bit of her femininity.

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

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

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic

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.

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