My husband had a clothing store in Paris, and I had his factory make specifically for me something similar to the one I was looking for. We made it in different colours, and decided to sell them in the store...and in a day, they were sold out! This sweater became later known as the "poor boy sweater" and it ended up making the cover of Elle magazine, and in a day, I became the "Queen of knit", without knowing anything about knitting!

I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that.

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

I'm not at all interested in doing clothes for movies or stage, in stage dressing or costuming. Nor can I design lingerie, for I never wear any! At one time I used to wear a lot of lingerie but now I'm in a mood of total nudity!

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!

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

In my family, Fashion was something we never talked about, it was thought of as kind of superficial.