I think God is the most fantastic designer.

I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.

Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.