I've always seen myself as a small entity, and it will always stay like that. I'm not changing. But I think the big challenge for me taking on the Dior thing is to see how I can connect that to such a huge institution.

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.

It felt wrong for me to stay totally connected to that very strict way of approaching the heritage - what it can be, what it cannot be. That was also the period where I really thought, "No, let's open it up."

The fashion world doesn't know the word stop, so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.

I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.

My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

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