Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.

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

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

I like very much to put on fashion shows.

I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men.

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.

It was a challenge for me to see how I could deal with that at Jil, and I had a lot of doubt about it. I wondered if maybe it was just better to do your own thing in the long run, like an artist.