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

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.

The key to my collections is sensuality.

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

From the very beginning I've said to women not to follow the fashion rules blindly, and to adapt clothes to suit who they are, and not the contrary.

I always have a lot of vents and slits in the clothes I design, even inside the pockets so that I can slip my hands inside my clothes and touch my skin. I want to be able to feel my body naked inside my clothes.

I can't go any place without going to museums. It's very important for me.