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

It's important to know yourself well, in order to create your own style of fashion to suit your own body shape.

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

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

I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.

Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.

I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that.