Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game. You have to be luxurious nude.

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

It's important to know yourself well, in order to create your own style of fashion to suit your own body shape.

I think that there are so many women who understand nothing about clothes and they should try and understand themselves before they start putting on disguises: they should stand in front of the mirror for a day, two days or three, and find out what they have which is beautiful, interesting: what they should show: hair, neck, arms, or hands.

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

After all these years of creating my collections, I still doubt my decision even until the last minute before the fashion show, I keep questioning myself and wondering if I did the right thing.