The Gucci woman - you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman - she’s going to torture you a little bit. You might have sex, but she will drip a little hot wax on you first.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.

I think you should suffer sometimes to be attractive and beautiful, so I cut the clothes very slim because I like to feel the clothes on my body.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

If you are a designer, sometimes it is better not to delegate, because someone pays money for something that you designed, so it should be exactly the way you want it, exactly the way you would have chosen it. People call me a control freak, and I say, "Well, my name is on the shoe." It means the heel needs to be the way I want it and not the way somebody else wants it, and the toe needs to be exactly the way I want it, and the fabric and the material have to be exactly the way I want it. It is not a democracy - it is a dictatorship.