I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!

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

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

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.

I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that.

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

[Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about it.