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 did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!

I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today.

The fashion industry is a free world, with creative codes that can be hardly considered sometimes, but it's also up to women to create their own style, and own trend.

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

My parents never mentioned anything about fashion in our household, instead we used to talk about literature, theatre, and arts...this is why I have kept a real relation with the Art world, by putting books from the beginning in my shops' windows.

After all these years of creating my collections, I still doubt my decision even until the last minute before the fashion show, I keep questioning myself and wondering if I did the right thing.

As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.