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

You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.

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.

I will be working on the collection until the day before the show! It's an endless process, that's all that I can say at that stage.

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

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

I hate the word feminine! I mean, there is a woman and a man and when I say "woman" it suggests all that is radiant, tender, fascinating, gentle, demoniac, exaggerated! Feminine makes me think of somebody who is spindly and over-sweet: I don't like that!