I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

You can learn a lot from my mistakes more than my success.

I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.

You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on

Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol

A gift to mankind; the next Elizabeth Taylor in the making

Paris is an old and traditional place; it needs new blood.

Body-con dresses have never been something I've been into.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.

My clothes and my interiors are about making people smile.

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

I'm not interested in types. I'm interested in archetypes.

People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'

For me, the best way to know me is to look at my clothing.

The coolest thing is when you don't care about being cool.

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

I would never go out in track bottoms and a baggy T-shirt.

My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow.

I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.

Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.

One of my fantasies is to produce 'Auntie Mame' as a play.

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?

I just feel the traditional runway format is old-fashioned.

I like to have cookies in the morning before I go swimming.

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

My face carries all of my memories. Why would I erase them?

Clothes can hide you from yourself but a bikini sure can't.

Haven't you heard? I sleep every night in the deep freezer!

I realized I needed to address people, not just dress them.

I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising.

What Hollywood designs today, you will be wearing tomorrow.

My love of fashion stemmed from my mother's passion for it.

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

Elegance is not being noticed, it's about being remembered.

Life is like a book: one has to know when to turn the page.

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