A scarf has to be the most beautiful thing ever invented to wear! It's a winding, a continuity, an infinity! I love things that are endless, I hate them to stop. It's like order and disorder: I rather love disorder and things that move, it's a state where one gets more things done!

I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.

I can be negatively criticised, but this is actually a positive thing, especially if the critic is smart, and helpful. I am very attentive to critics, they let me go ahead and push myself harder to continue.

You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.

I can be happy with something I did, like a drawing or a dress I designed, and yet be very disappointed with the same drawing, or the same dress the day after.