Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

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.

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

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

At hotels, you are an actress. Absolutely. You can do what you want. Go where you want. I love my home too. But I love to arrive in a hotel. They have books, chocolate, food. I put things in the little refrigerator.

The fashion industry is a free world, with creative codes that can be hardly considered sometimes, but it's also up to women to create their own style, and own trend.

Everything I do is really an expression of myself, through colors and shapes and, at the same time, I try to explain what I feel not only as a creator but also as a woman. I cannot separate one from the other.