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

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

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.

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.

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

When the economy changes, it's not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate.

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.