I think fashion is fashion: Sometimes you dress people that you don't know, and sometimes you dress people that you actually know.

What is the Balmain girl? It’s a woman who knows what she wants and is going to express it

I like people who are powerful, confident, and fearless. Balmain is about an attitude. I think if Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor were alive, they would definitely be part of the Balmain crew.

When you become controversial, when you want to promote new ideas, you need to be the face of it and not be scared.

It's really sad to me that we even have to talk about diversity in the fashion world today. That I would love to change. Diversity should be normal.

I wish there were more young people in the big houses, but sometimes it's really hard for them to believe in the youth because they go for what's the most expected.

What I'm doing now is having people with and around me to build what other designers built before - like Pierre Balmain with Josephine Baker, Audrey Hepburn, Dalida, Brigitte Bardot.

Kanye West is inspirational. He expresses such a strong vision beyond music, beyond fashion - it's art. He sn't afraid to push boundaries and be provocative.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body.

War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.

I love Paris. I've been there a number of times.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga.

Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.