I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don’t expect it.
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one’s clothing.
It’s always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.
Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.
Do you know that cats can’t wear corsets? They can’t stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried!
My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television.
My eccentricity became direction.
There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.
All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.
What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.
I don’t like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
It is beautiful to be what you are.
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.
I don’t know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.
When people have good energy, I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.
Designers are to be in connection with what’s happening with the movement of society.
When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.
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.
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.