I would prefer to use the word free. I think the Dior thing is so much freer. There was not so much free about Jil's way of working.

I have so much respect for John [Galliano]s technical skill and the fantasy, its just something that I dont find relevant now, especially when it restricts a woman, because in every other area they have so much freedom.

I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, "What should I do now?" It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant. The difference is that once I was in Antwerp only doing two men's shows a year. And the weird thing is I thought I was busy then.

I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

The future, for me, is romantic, I don’t understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you don’t know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating.

My aim is a very modern Dior, but at the end of the day, I also look back.