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 feel like a slave, and in a way like an artist, because I need to get inspiration everyday, from everything and everyone.

I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today.

I have the feeling I've always done what I wanted throughout my life.

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!

I married a man who was in fashion. I began to work when my daughter Nathalie was about eight or 10 years old. Then one day I began to make a sweater, and eventually the sweater was on the front page of Elle magazine. And the day after I was the queen of knit in America.

The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.