If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.

If I wasn't a designer, I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache, and I will give you a dress, and we both make you feel good.

I'm always looking for a story.

The nature of fashion is family.

I live many lives at once.

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn’t work.

I’m not going into the cool club. It’s not my address.

I don’t go out to parties because I’d look terrible in pictures. My escape is television – it’s like meditation to me.

The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They’re kind of like nuns of fashion.

Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don’t have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I’ve tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.