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

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.

My parents never mentioned anything about fashion in our household, instead we used to talk about literature, theatre, and arts...this is why I have kept a real relation with the Art world, by putting books from the beginning in my shops' windows.

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

We are not saying that all women should be thin like these very thin and young girls. We are creating a show, with its artistic codes and rules, and we have to try not to mix up all the codes together.

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

The key to my collections is sensuality.