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.

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

My mom didn't teach me about Marco Polo. She didn't teach me about Napoleon. She didn't teach me about any of that. But she did teach me how to survive and to be a good person. And you need to be a strong woman to do that. She's the biggest person in my life. She's my Virgin Maria. That's why I love religion so much.

I think my heart is in a very good place. And I think this is why I'm achieving what I've been asking to do in the universe for so long.

I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me.

I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

At the beginning, I didn't see what Givenchy could give my career. It was like, "Okay, I'll do it for the money for a few years to help my mom and my sisters."