And even being in the middle of it, at the LVMH group with Dior, there are certain parts of it that I'm just not really in, because it's not in me or my nature. The whole scene around it, the events, the photography ... It's never really been my thing. But I don't take a critical position on people who are very much about that either.

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 don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it. I want to stay connected to them rather than to an abstract brand.

Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.

I see my position in that whole Dior construction very differently from my own brand. My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there and it's like a - I don't know the English word - like a passage.

In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

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