In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.
Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.
Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn’t so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.
Dressing is a pleasure; clothes are not a joke.
I’m still astounded by some people’s reaction to things I consider quite normal.
In France, history is paralyzing.
To show the relativity of what’s good taste and what’s not is something I like to play with.
I love Madonna. She is the only woman I have asked to marry me. She refused, of course.
What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?
People are so codified – it’s sad.
I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.
I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
I was fascinated by movies from age 12.
I was lucky to have parents who loved me.
If it’s too fashiony, it’s not interesting to me.
My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.
People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.
My best experiences with movies have come when I didn’t know what to see.
To conform is to give in.