The fashion industry can in a certain way be very hard and closed.

Your body can be very female, which is something you can do nothing about, but then you can have the soul, the mind and the spirit of both male and female. The women friends I am closest to somehow have this masculine side to them, they shove their hands in their pockets when they walk: I love that side.

The fashion industry can in a certain way be very hard and closed.

I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that.

I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!

My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.

My parents never mentioned anything about fashion in our household, instead we used to talk about literature, theatre, and arts...this is why I have kept a real relation with the Art world, by putting books from the beginning in my shops' windows.