I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.
When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.
Fashion is not art. Never.
I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.
It is beautiful to be what you are.
People are so codified - it's sad.
The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.
I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!
I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.
People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
Always my collections are made of different influences.
I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.
People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.
My eccentricity became direction.
The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.
I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me.
Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.
I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
