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

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.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

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.

I dont want to show clothes, I want to show my attitude, my past, present and future. I use memories and future visions and try to place them in todays world.

My own show with Sterling Ruby, for example, seems like such a huge disconnection from Dior couture, but then I think, yeah, in both collections there was a very strong focus on the human hand and the actual work of people making garments. So in that sense, they were completely related. But I didn't realize that during the process.