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

From the very beginning I've said to women not to follow the fashion rules blindly, and to adapt clothes to suit who they are, and not the contrary.

When I was a kid, all I liked were books and chocolate.

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

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

I couldn't have opened a store without putting books with the clothes. I am still writing as I have always done, and have published my ninth book "L'envers à l'endroit" last year. I am currently working on a dictionary of my favourite words.

I can be happy with something I did, like a drawing or a dress I designed, and yet be very disappointed with the same drawing, or the same dress the day after.