When it's only clothes, that is not satisfying enough for me. I don't think I could do this for 10, 20 years if that was all. It also has to be about a psychology or a mentality or a concept.

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

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

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

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.

I like very much to put on fashion shows.

Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.