I will be working on the collection until the day before the show! It's an endless process, that's all that I can say at that stage.

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.

You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

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.

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.

The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.

I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that.

Immature poets imitate: mature poets steal.

In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.

I don't fear anybody... at all.

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

Nobody loves me. Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.

But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

If you're interested in a book that will steadily grow and sell for a very long time, I promise you I will give you that.