I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

I wanted an idea of the future, a new femininity. I wanted you to feel that you wouldn't quite know where these women were coming from and where they were going to.

My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

But overall I want to make sure people fall in love with the clothes and that they are satisfied

My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.

Camouflage is about much more than concealment and going unnoticed. There's a whole game involved between revealing and hiding.

I always try to connect with what's happening in the world-reality, modernity, the 21st century, all that - and with Jil it started to feel very disconnected from the outside and how women were looking at fashion, experiencing fashion, interpreting fashion.