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.

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.

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

I like very much to put on fashion shows.

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

Contemporary art for me is a real driver; it propels us into the future. And at the same time, it's what connects us to the past, from a perspective of artistic evolution in which the succession of eras and styles gives meaning to creation.

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.