Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient.

I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

My name is more important than myself.

The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.