I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.

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.

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

As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.

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.

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

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.