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

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

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

I am like the lover of Roland Barthes "who's always running in his head". I'm always searching, and "eating" everything from my life, in order to put it in my dresses!

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

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