I do love science-fiction and horror movies.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

I have a quality where I sort of scare people. But I am who I am.

I'm always curious. Every day. As we get on in life, we must be grateful.

Actually, I love golf clothes! I think this is the most interesting part of golf!

I grew up with the idea that once you found yourself with your clothes, why change?

It's true that fashion is looking at fashion all the time, and this is quite boring.

People used to define me as a futurist designer, but, you know, the future is now for me.

More than anything, I'm designing for a woman of today. I want to be a witness of my time.

I grew up in such a small city, I had to be popular or I'd be dead. So I had to be popular!

I'm the kind of person who, even after a shoot that I've loved, is always moving on. There is no gap.

It is the job of the editors to find somebody. I'm sorry, but you have to get out there and find them.

You never do things thinking you will make a big statement. It just happens sometimes and you are lucky.

I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction.

I think when a time comes, a change comes, and you have to recognize the change but also believe in yourself.

What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.

Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style.

I promised myself: Before your 18th birthday, you're going to be at Jean Paul Gaultier. And it worked. I was hired.

I'd rather work with someone who likes what I do than create something for the red carpet that won't make me happy.

I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer.

I think the golden age of couture had some of the most incredible customers: women like Nan Kempner and all the icons.

In French we have this word déclic. It's when you have, suddenly, a light shining and you say, "This is what I want to do."

Of course I live in my time, and I'm really curious. But, at the same time, I don't think it has a direct impact on my work.

You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

I can say, let's go to the DNA of the brand and find something that I can introduce into my work. It's part of the patrimony of fashion.

Your priority has to be the creativity - and build a brand. That's what everybody did - Balenciaga, Dior, Saint Laurent. That's the smart thing to do.

I grew up in a family that played golf, and my brother was much better than me, so I kind of put that aside. I had to be good at something other than golf.

In this work, you have to convince everyone all the time, at different levels, to support your dream. I learned you have to be confident in order to do that.

In terms of design, it's true the world has an influence. But, as a designer, you have to protect yourself. You have to look at the world and then forget it.

I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course, but we are looking for ideas all the time.

That's what I think when people do their "best stuff" collection. When you start to think, "Oh, I will just present my 10 years of work," that's not a good sign.

Sometimes you never feel lonelier than when you are always doing tons of things and traveling all over the place. There is a real feeling of loneliness sometimes.

I love art. I love music. It's more about the lifestyle you yourself have - that's the most inspiring thing. The way you share relationships with the people around you.

I remember Grace (Coddington) looking at me and said, 'Can you do something?' and I was like, 'OK, how long do you give me?' and she said 'Half an hour?', I said 'Forty-five minutes?'

If I were to find something that is going to be more important to me than fashion - that would be work and love - then I probably would let go. That's a possibility. But fashion is an addiction.

For a long time, my uniform consisted of a trench coat, wide flared jeans, and little bottines - I copied a pair that my mother had in this theater place. I had, like, 10 pairs of the same shoes.

We live with a future where every three or four months, we have to question everything. You think you could be the best, or that you're nothing and you don't know what you're doing. It is exhausting.

Designers are more like artistic directors now. Before, there wasn't this idea of supervising the artistic direction of the entire house. The old way was to think you could be this couturier or designer or stylist.

I like the idea of women and men in movement. My fashion is not about being still. It's almost sporty, sometimes. I like the evolution of sports clothes. I think they are very interesting in the cut, in the fabrics.

As designers, we do so much with material and construction. It's really architectural; it comes close to building. A scent is so immaterial. It's really about emotion and sensation. Clothes are too, but it's not the same.

I don't know if that's new, but it has become very official over the past 25 or 30 years - and today it's probably at its most extreme point, where sometimes collections look more like a stylist's work than a designer's signature.

Today, kids are much more aware of what fashion means, but when I was growing up, it was popular, but not as popular as today. Like any kid, I was fascinated by drawing. But when some of the kids let go, I kept drawing and drawing.

I don't feel French at all. That was never really a concern, and it's limiting to think that way. I think Paris is more of a playground for international designers, so I don't really feel French. And I don't really want to feel French.

There are people I've worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they've never actually grasped that this isn't yoghurt or a piece of furniture - products in the purest sense of the term.

I love what I do and I adore this whole world. I'm able to meet fantastic people. I meet fantastic writers, I meet architects, I meet incredible talent. Fashion is really a world, besides the creation, that I think is super interesting, super inspiring.

I think Rihanna is very interesting. But those people, the singers especially, know how to handle themselves because they're in the limelight. That's why it has grown into something where the model has stepped back - and I don't know if it's coming forward again.

Fashion, in a way, has become like pop culture today. With all of the communications and the Internet and the designers doing lines with big brands, it's more popular than it's ever been, but everything is all mixed together. It's become like television or music.

Strangely, meanness pays more than offering constructive and interesting commentary. Every season I think, "This is the last season. I'm not gonna read tomorrow morning. Forget it." The first thing when I wake up - quite late, usually - I am craving the newspaper.

People usually forget that fashion designers are not artists, but there is an artistic side that is very strong in my point of view. At the same time, you have to be so organized and so serious. There are two aspects that are quite big contradictions, strangely, in what I'm doing.

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