Even though I had a fantastic family, I always felt lonely - not lonely in the melancholic way but knowing that, to really survive, I have to do everything for myself. I had to work and study, and I was out in the street really surviving, bringing food back home.

My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.

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

I didn't want to dress anyone in the beginning, no celebrities. Then, very slowly I started with one, two, like that. There are some celebrities whom we dress because they are part of the family. They are women I admire. I don't care how famous she is, if she is at the movies or in a concert.

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

In the beginning I didn't want to do a menswear collection. It felt a little forced. And then I found that it was an amazing world.

When I do a show I have such high emotion; the energy is amazing - but, people don't really see the details and the work and the experimentation that we, the designers, put into the clothes. With prêt-à-porter you're having a look.