How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?
You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.
Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.
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.
Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.
From the very beginning I've said to women not to follow the fashion rules blindly, and to adapt clothes to suit who they are, and not the contrary.
In my family, Fashion was something we never talked about, it was thought of as kind of superficial.
I married a man who was in fashion. I began to work when my daughter Nathalie was about eight or 10 years old. Then one day I began to make a sweater, and eventually the sweater was on the front page of Elle magazine. And the day after I was the queen of knit in America.
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.
I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today.
As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.
Fashion is also a form of art, and like every kind of art, it has its own way of expression. In other words, if a dress looks better on a thin girl, on a catwalk, during a very specific moment of time and space then it's represented as part of a "fashion Show". It is after all a "Show" and it has to be understood by people that it is a "show" and not real life.
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.
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.
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!
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.
The fashion industry can in a certain way be very hard and closed.
