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.

Every two to three weeks, I was changing around my room. My room was made out of nothing, basically - a magazine, a little radio, a little bed - and I had the sensibility to put things together and match things in a certain way so that they were very special.

I’m very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively.

No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

There was a loneliness because kids my age had video games, tennis. They traveled. They had beautiful clothes. I was wearing my sisters' old clothes that were adjusted on me, because we didn't have money to buy clothes. So that really made me go deep inside on my heart, because the only things I could have with me were my heart and my brain.

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.

I had only two girlfriends. I didn't have many friends because I was staying at home and dreaming - drawing and dreaming.