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

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.

At hotels, you are an actress. Absolutely. You can do what you want. Go where you want. I love my home too. But I love to arrive in a hotel. They have books, chocolate, food. I put things in the little refrigerator.

I always have a lot of vents and slits in the clothes I design, even inside the pockets so that I can slip my hands inside my clothes and touch my skin. I want to be able to feel my body naked inside my clothes.

As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

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