Couture is emotion. Couture is freedom. Couture is not thinking about pricing and not thinking about craziness. You can do whatever you want to do in couture.

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

For me, darkness is something very beautiful.

I’m very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively.

Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor.

My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.

Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when I'm working.

Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years.

...each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way ...

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

Every day is a reminder of what I need to do to be the best person; the best me.

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

Somebody referred to what I do as subliminal activism, which I like.

Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.