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

When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

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.

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.

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence. I feel like people on the street today probably dress better than they did in the '50s.

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.