My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

Sex doesn't sell as well as we thought. If we would not sell the Van Gogh and Co., it would be a very serious problem.

Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas this could not be more false. It is the opposite of a mirror, a deformation.

Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.

With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there.

When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.

Take pictures all the time. Don't worry if you take a bad photograph; you learn more by taking a bad picture than a good one. If you don't like it, study it and figure out why you don't like it. You'll learn from your mistake.