I feel like a slave, and in a way like an artist, because I need to get inspiration everyday, from everything and everyone.

I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that.

I hate the word feminine! I mean, there is a woman and a man and when I say "woman" it suggests all that is radiant, tender, fascinating, gentle, demoniac, exaggerated! Feminine makes me think of somebody who is spindly and over-sweet: I don't like that!

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

The key to my collections is sensuality.

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

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