With couture you have faithfulness - people are faithful to you. In couture, you will see that the cut looks like a lace dress from a distance, but it's only when you get nearer you understand that it's layers of lace, hand stitched in a certain shape, all the work - the zips, the buttons, the hooks... it goes on.

When I was far away, when I prayed every night, I felt I was very near with my heart, with my brain, to my sisters and my mom.

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life.

One thing my mom didn't want any of us to do was to cry or to complain about life. Every day and night, even when we didn't have much food, we would pray together. And that for me was a beautiful moment. The fact of being poor didn't really hurt me.

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.